This is one reason I'm afraid of improvements in automatic music transcription systems. Once it becomes easy to search any voice of any piece of music ever reco

This is one reason I'm afraid of improvements in automatic music transcription systems. Once it becomes easy to search any voice of any piece of music ever recorded, lawyers will be trawling music search engines day and night looking for common subsequences. This is also another example of why I think laches should be a defense against copyright infringement. If it takes you three decades to realise your copyright is being violated by someone in the same country as you ...