Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis

They did a great Tedx talk here, and the person effectively describes the problems that Sheeran has run into: [this video]

You wouldn't even need ML. Iirc there was this guy who coded a script that played every permutation of 12 notes in a 5 minute period and then made all the Melodys public domain. Ianal so I don't know if this would hold up in court, but technically that should invalidate every copyright on Melodys after that point in time. E: [this video] found the ted talk

Is this beginning of a Copyright trolling campaign or preventing accidental infringement as similar case in music [this video] ?

That is the reason these guys decided to Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement [this video] TED talk

There is also the brute force approach (from 2020) to generate every possible melody and release it under the Creative Commons: [this video]

1. lots of established law and case law (at least in the US), this is already a well-settled problem and folks have the tools and proper venue to bring infringement claims. Yes, federal copyright infringement litigation is prohibitively expensive for many issues. There is a now a "small claims court" for smaller issues. [1] 2. Those works cannot be copyrighted (at least in the US). [2]. And hey, someone already tried copyrighting every song melody [3] [1]: [link] [2]: [link] [3]: [this video]

I hope this has been tested by now, but not sure: Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis [this video]

I’m reminded of lawyer Damien Riehl’s (performative) reaction to the Sam Smith infringement decision, back in 2019/2020. He and programmer Noah Rubin algorithmically generated every possible melody (within a certain combinatorial space, in MIDI format as I recall), and purported to release them under CC-0 license [0]. He went on to attract some attention and explain his argument at a regional TEDx event [1]. I seem to recall legal commentators reacting with an eyeroll—apparently judges split much finer hairs than these for a living—but it was a cute stunt. [0] [link] [1] [this video] and [link]