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I think the aim is not to claim that other pieces violate this collection's copyright, but rather to invalidate the frivolous claims that such melody sequences
by pergadad 7y ago
I think the aim is not to claim that other pieces violate this collection's copyright, but rather to invalidate the frivolous claims that such melody sequences are copyrighted to begin with.
Either the courts decide they are not, in which case the creators will be happy.
Or they are copyrightable and therefore this collection, even if it is in the public domain, is a prior art that invalidates any claim that a newly used melody is really new/copyrightable.
- dredmorbius 7y agoWithout the capacity to litigate, that ability is sharply reduced. Free software achieved its attack on proprietary software not by rejecting copyright claims but by turning them on themselves. It's a bit like the Tesla Valve, a one-way passive check valve with no moving parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve