> It seems to me that an enumeration of possibilities might be creative, but there is no way an individual element of that enumeration can be considered creativ

> It seems to me that an enumeration of possibilities might be creative, but there is no way an individual element of that enumeration can be considered creative. What if the author was thinking about generating a specific, original melody when he hit "run"? He just wanted that melody and didn't care about the rest, but he was lazy and it was easier to find his melody among the rest of generated melodies instead of modifying the source code. Can you deny that he created that melody?