One issue in litigation is the issue of copyright in terms of music. If plagiarism of the text is easy to track, then with music it is often more difficult, which gives rise to a number of lawsuits in court.
And therefore, the musician and copyright lawyer Damien Riel, along with colleague Noah Rubin, recorded all possible tunes in MIDI format to the hard disk, and then published them on the network. Thus, they intend to stop lawsuits for copyright infringement, since they violate the creative freedom of performers.
First, the performers identified each melody contained within one octave. Then the algorithm began to sort through possible combinations of notes, creating melodies of 8 notes and 12 bits. In this case, technically, it is similar to password guessing. According to Riel, the system can generate 300,000 combinations per second.
The authors stated that copyright protects music when it is recorded in tangible format. In the case of MIDI, notes are just numbers that are not subject to these restrictions.
The source code for the program is available on GitHub, and melodies are available in the Internet Archive.
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