Well, now I'm disappointed. I was going to point to this TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_copyrighting_all_the_melodies_to_avoid_accidental_infr

Well, now I'm disappointed. I was going to point to this TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_copyrighting_all_the_melodies_to_avoid_accidental_infringement https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_copyrighting_all_the_...) but it appears to have been removed as the video no longer loads for me. However, this (https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_why_all_melodies_should_be_free_for_musicians_to_use https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_why_all_melodies_shou...) appears to be an abridged version of the same talk. The disappointing bit: I say it's an abridged version because I distinctly remember him talking about how he actually claimed copyright for all 8-note melodies under a permissive license, which I can't find in the one that actually loads. He "brute forced" every 8-note melody with a program, saved them to a disk and claimed copyright under (I believe) the MIT license. (I can see legal issues with doing that, of course, so it's not hard to imagine possibly why the video was replaced with a different one.)