Lawsuits we’re talking about involve incredibly common harmonic and melodic progressions[0], but that’s besides the point. Key aspects of software—the way it l

Lawsuits we’re talking about involve incredibly common harmonic and melodic progressions[0], but that’s besides the point. Key aspects of software—the way it looks and works—aren’t auto-copyrighted (right?), even if they are quite original and unique. Many common UI (timeline, photo grid, etc.) or API patterns arise because they spring to multiple minds because they simply make sense in given moment in given shared context; just like that arbitrary melodic progressions spring to mind as you play, and yes who’s there to say it didn’t spring to someone else’s mind before. As someone both into music and software production, I personally will continue finding the notion of harmonic progressions or melodies as automatically copyrighted (or even copyrightable) as weird. There’s just so much more than that to any song or music piece, and making a field of creative passion a legal minefield doesn’t seem conducive to its thriving. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fh_fc80KMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fh_fc80KMs (this was apparently settled out of court)