[Cthulhu_]

The problem there is that it's incredibily difficult to prove copyright violation / plagiarism; a recent example, there's a Tetris film on Apple TV and the author of a book is suing because they believe it lifted their story after he sent a pre-production copy to the company currently owning the Tetris brand: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/aug/09/the-tetris-eff...

[izacus]

I dunno, with DMCA and backdoors to YouTube, I don't see megapublishers having any problems taking down content via IP laws.

[h2odragon]

Right, but we don't want to just "take it down"; we want to extract rent from the efforts of others by legal means.

To move into the music industry, we might patent the idea of "notes" and thereby gain royalties on all extant music... certainly any future music, what with "prior art" and all...

But arranging tones in families by resonances and using that system to make a written representation of tones for the purposes of later independent reproduction of the sequence of sound? That's a patent-able idea, at least as much as "Method and arrangement for data compression according to the LZ77 algorithm"