[andromeduck]

So I could still go to a concert and publish the notes, pitches and timings of the sounds I heard because those are just facts not fixed to a medium like the chess moves here?

[icebraining]

No, because there's a law specifically about live musical performances: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap11.html

[waqf]

That law is about fixing the sounds themselves, which is specifically what andromeduck is proposing not to do.

It's conceivable that andromeduck's distinction won't stand up in law, but you haven't addressed it.

[icebraining]

Ah, right, fair enough.

[Confusion]

It seems you would be allowed to do that, but good luck with doing that in real time. First recording it and transcribing it in that way afterwards is not allowed.

[andromeduck]

You could probably do it for stuff like country reasonably easily with some kind of steno setup.