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An analog to this might be the settings of knobs and switches for an audio synthesizer, or guitar effects settings. If you wanted to get the "Led Zeppelin sound
by cbm-vic-20 3y ago
An analog to this might be the settings of knobs and switches for an audio synthesizer, or guitar effects settings. If you wanted to get the "Led Zeppelin sound" from a guitar, you could take a picture of the knobs on the various pedals and their configuration, and replicate that yourself. You then create a new song that uses those settings. Is that something that is allowed under copyright?
What if there were billions of knobs, tuned after years of feedback and observations of the sound output?
- paxys 3y agoI don't think that's a good analogy. A piano has N keys. You can press certain ones in certain combinations and write it down. That result is still copyrightable, because you can prove that it was an original and creative work. Setting knobs for a machine is no different, but the key differentiator is if you did it yourself or if an algorithm did it for you.
- cbm-vic-20 3y agoIn my analogy, it's not the sequence of the notes or the composition, which I agree is copyrightable. But are the settings of the knobs and switches on synthesizers and effects devices used in a recording equivalent to the weights of a neural network or LLM? And if so, are those settings or weights copyrighitable?
- rvcdbn 3y agoThat’s a bad analogy because a human chose the values of those settings using their creative mind. That’s not at all the case with weights. This originality is the heart of copyright law.