[tomlong]

I know it's many orders of magnitude more difficult.. but if I got a printer to print out one of every possible art and published it, CC licensed it, etc wouldn't that have the same legal status as these melodies... probably none?

I showed this article to a musicologist (in the UK) and he said:

> I assume that somehow lawyers can refer to a precedent of "this is too ridiculous to be taken seriously"

[cyphar]

The other thing is that machine-generated works almost by definition do not reach the "creative" aspect of the "original and creative" requirement for copyright to apply.

[bdowling]

Exactly. Their work is not protectable under copyright because it is not a work of authorship, but an exhaustive list of all possible melodies.

[tomlong]

Just to quickly add, I think the project is cool, it provokes interesting discussion and it doesn't need to be legally watertight or achieve what they say they set out to, to be worthwhile.