damienriehl

Thanks for your note about our project! To learn more about the ~471 billion melodies we created — then copyrighted — then put in the public domain (to protect songwriter "you stole my melody" defendants), more information is here:

http://allthemusic.info/faqs/

Our All The Music project accounts for silence. A "note" can be silence. Which could also account for rhythm. How different are these?

<eighth> <eighth_rest> <eighth_rest> <eighth> <eighth> <quarter> <eighth_rest> <eighth> <eighth>

Especially when considering copyright infringement lawsuits? Which require only "substantial similarity."

Thanks for your amplification of my project!

If anyone would like to see my TED Talk on the topic, it's here: https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_why_all_melodies_shou...

Yes, I'm a cofounder of All The music — that someone referenced above — and you can feel free to build upon our tool, which is open source: https://github.com/allthemusicllc?tab=repositories

If/when you improve it, please let us know. We'd love to amplify your message/work!

I'm The Atlantic article's subject. To date, we have created — and copyrighted — about 400 billion (400,000,000,000) melodies. Here are descriptions:

http://allthemusic.info/faqs/#What_have_you_created_so_far

All of the melodies could be filed with the U.S. Copyright Office — as a "compilation" — much like a music album.