[al2o3cr]

    Say you like a certain sound in a song and would
    like to use it as a starting point for your own
    sound patch.

As a bonus, you might be the Lucky Winner of a copyright suit that eventually establishes a whole new area of case law.

Yeah, it would be ridiculous and unreasonable - but so was "I copyrighted these three notes in a row so pay me naow" :(

[xyzzy123]

I thought this was an interesting point so I looked had a look to see if timbre is considered a copyrightable element of a work.

It seems it's usually not: https://blogs.law.gwu.edu/mcir/2018/12/20/timbre/

[abdljasser2]

Very interesting! Thank you for this.