In most countries copyright laws only protect work that was created by a human being; e.g. the US Copyright Office will refuse to register a claim if it determi

In most countries copyright laws only protect work that was created by a human being; e.g. the US Copyright Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work. It doesn't matter if an LLM or a simple program or calculation generated the music; in both cases the creator was no human being. There were cases in the press recently where this rule was confirmed for DNN generated works. Also note that copyright law protects "expression of ideas" (i.e. works), not the ideas itself (nor compilations of ideas), and that the work must possess "at least some minimal degree of creativity." It is also debatable whether a single, short melody can be considered a work or a mere idea. Unfortunately, in the last twenty years, the courts (and in some cases also the law) have begun to soften the concept of a work even further and to allow even trivialities to be considered protected works (a similarly decadent development could be observed years earlier in the patent system). Although this pleases some corporations and publishers, it has not exactly helped to improve legal certainty (nor innovation).