Good lawyers "hack" the law all the time. They find novel uses and interpretations for things that exist. The hack here isn't some absolute negation of all co

Good lawyers "hack" the law all the time. They find novel uses and interpretations for things that exist. The hack here isn't some absolute negation of all copyright claims, but now that all (intraoctave) melodies definitively exist, people suing that they "created" a melody will need to find an even more clever argument that holds up now that it is known to already exist. For example, hopefully these guys will publish their work on a music service, otherwise it might be argued that they simply created numbers and not music, which a judge could realistically be expected to differentiate.