This thinking is incorrect: > But the lawsuits have been where he’s really highlighted the absurdity of modern copyright law. After winning one of the lawsuits

This thinking is incorrect: > But the lawsuits have been where he’s really highlighted the absurdity of modern copyright law. After winning one of the lawsuits a year ago, he put out a heartfelt statement on how ridiculous the whole thing was. A key part: > > There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify—that’s 22 million songs a year—and there’s only 12 notes that are available. Too many technical artisans (and I'm using this term loosely, to include those who craft software, music, or any other physical / virtual good that requires some modicum of skill to produce) believe that the law regarding copyright applies to the sole right to sell a particular arrangement of whatever medium it is they are working in. This is the wrong thinking. While it is true western music has twelve notes and some finite number of common chords, which can only be arranged in finite time in finite ways, this is irrelevant to copyright, because notes, like source code, like paint, like lyrics, etc also has Color, and if you don't understand what Color is (and think it's red, green and blue, and such), then I suggest you read https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23