> Does copyright law protect “in the style of”? I don’t think anyone knows. I think the is the crux of the issue. I think it would not. IMO the spirit of copyr

> Does copyright law protect “in the style of”? I don’t think anyone knows. I think the is the crux of the issue. I think it would not. IMO the spirit of copyright law protect certain essential elements of a work being reproduced identically or nearly-identically (1), but not a composition that is reminiscent of a general style of some other work, and certainly not some collective body of work. To me the source of the training data should not matter insofar that it does not matter if an artist studies a body of work to create pieces in the style of X. Does it concern copyright law that an artificial rather than biological neural network has been trained on a body of work? Would a copyright judgment ever be made on the basis that an artist studied too much of another person's work, and not simply the similarities between the piece they created and another specific work? It is against copyright law to release either a computer generated lowfi cover or a human generated violin cover of stairway to heaven. On the other hand you could go and buy an amp, guitar, pedals, etc. to perfectly recreate a classic 'jimmy page sound', and whatever you compose would be fine as long as the song does not borrow specific melodies found in led zeplin songs. See any Greta Van Fleet song. Moreover, that GVF reminds everyone of led zeplin is no coincidence. From wikipedia: "Greta Van Fleet is often compared to Led Zeppelin. Jake said he went through a year of really intensely studying what Jimmy Page did to the point I knew how he thought." At the end of the day I think there is no basis to claim a copyright over a general "style", and that's a good thing. (1) https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-ice-ice-baby/ https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-ice-ice-...