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Actually, a lot of songs are incredibly similar to older songs (see ed sheeran v marvin gaye), and they're not infringing. Things will look very similar becaus
by m00x 3y ago
Actually, a lot of songs are incredibly similar to older songs (see ed sheeran v marvin gaye), and they're not infringing.
Things will look very similar because there are only so many things that sound good to the mass appeal.
> I anticipate AI researchers will soon come up with a way to ensure that outputs are a sufficient distance from all training inputs
This is already a thing.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoIf you are basing your argument on a comparison between Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye, then you are talking about something completely different. A better example is that Vanilla Ice had to pay royalties to Queen and David Bowie for using the bass hook from Under Pressure in Ice Ice Baby.
- feoren 3y ago> a lot of songs are incredibly similar to older songs (see ed sheeran v marvin gaye), and they're not infringing They're really not that similar. The Marvin Gaye family lawsuits are absolutely frivolous and a stain on his legacy. Suing over the same chord progression (ignoring tons of small variations that actually matter) would be like suing an author because they also had a character who was an angsty teenager with overbearing parents. Suing over a mostly-kinda-similar riff is like suing an author because they also used the sentence "Terrified, he ran." The songs only sound similar when you ignore all elements of the whole song and focus exactly on a few ways in which they overlap out of context. They're nothing like GitHub CoPilot literally outputting comments that include copyright notifications from their original author. It's much more like suing someone who directly samples your song as a core element of their own (the Vanilla Ice example in the other comment).