Interviews, articles, and other discussions of the All the Music Project:
Aug. 2019: TEDx Minneapolis, Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement (redistributed in 2022 by TED.com, below):
Feb. 2020 Interview with Adam Neely, Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they’re all on this hard drive):
Apr. 2022: Duke Law, discussing updates since 2019.
Sept. 2022: The Jist, interview from a lawyer/musician’s perspective.
Oct. 2022: 2020’d, interview from three musicians’ perspective.
The Atlantic, The Hard Drive With 68 Billion Melodies
Vice, Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
The Independent (UK), Musician Uses Algorithm to Generate Every Possible Melody to Prevent Copyright Lawsuits
The Telegraph (UK), Computer coders create every melody possible in bid to help musicians avoid copyright suits
The Times (UK), Computer program helps stop musicians being sued for plagiarism
Daily Mail (UK), Hobbyist musician uses computer algorithm to compose every melody possible in the key of C, then releases it for free online in the hopes of minimizing frivolous copyright suits of simple songs.
Financial Times (UK), AI and patents: How machine learning can help or hinder innovation.
Interview with Reality2.0, All the Music
Interview with FLOSS Weekly, Chill Pirate Lawyer.
Interview with Canadian national station CTV News:
Interview excerpted from 2600 Magazine’s and WBAI Radio’s “Off the Hook” show:
Interview with Opening Arguments podcast, Interview with “All the Music” Creators!
Interview excerpted from KEXP’s “Sound and Vision”: Preventing Copyright Cases in Music
Interview with IP Fridays (U.S. + Germany): All the Music Project – Copyright Claims
Interview with Open Minds … from Creative Commons:
Solar Sands, The Canvas of Babel
Interview with BR Bayern (Germany), Auf dieser 0815-Festplatte steckt das Copyright für jede Pop-Melodie der Welt (translation: The copyright for every pop tune in the world is on this 0815 hard drive)
Le Monde (France), Pour éviter les procès pour plagiat dans la musique, un algorithme met 68 milliards de mélodies dans le domaine public (translation: To avoid lawsuits for plagiarism in music, an algorithm puts 68 billion melodies in the public domain)
Drexel Law Review, Out of Tune: Recomposing the Link Between Music and Copyright
Classic FM. Two musicians used an algorithm to create every single melody possible. Ever.
L’Unione Sarda (Italy), I Led Zeppelin sono sempre innocenti (translation: Led Zeppelin are always innocent)
Business Post (Ireland), Free-for-all melody database should be music to the ears of songwriters
Digital Day (Italy), Due musicisti hanno registrato tutte le melodie esistenti e poi le hanno rese pubbliche (translation: Two musicians recorded all the existing melodies and then made them public)
Times of India, A musician has created ‘every melody possible’
NME (Australia), Two musicians have generated every possible melody to prevent lawsuits
- r/technology: 73k+ Musician uses algorithm to generate ‘every melody that’s ever existed and ever can exist’ in bid to end absurd copyright lawsuits
- r/programming: 4k+ Copyright implications of brute forcing all 12-tone major melodies in approximately 2.5 TB
- r/tech: 1.5k+ Attempt To Put Every Musical Melody Into The Public Domain Demonstrates Craziness Of Modern Copyright
- r/WeAreTheMusicmakers: 900+ Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they’re all on this hard drive)
BoingBoing, A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law
ExtremeTech, New Tool Generates Every Possible Melody for Public Domain Use
TechDirt, Attempt To Put Every Musical Melody Into The Public Domain Demonstrates Craziness Of Modern Copyright
Kottke, Recording All the Melodies
IFL Science!, An Algorithm Has Created Every Possible Musical Melody So No One Can Ever Sue For Copyright Infringement
Business Insurance Magazine, U Can’t Touch This: Algorithm to end music copyright suits?
Mashable, New algorithm generates every possible melody to curb copyright lawsuits
That Song Sounds Like, Every Melody Possible Is On A Hard Drive And You Can Download It!
Scholarly Kitchen, Every Pop Melody Possible is Now in the Public Domain
Open Culture, Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, and They’re Now Released into the Public Domain
Der Standard (Austria), Copyright-Protest: Anwalt lässt Algorithmus “alle möglichen” Melodien generieren (translation: Copyright protest: Lawyer lets algorithm generate “all possible” melodies)
La Vanguardia (Spain), Un algoritmo crea todas las melodías posibles para evitar las demandas por plagio (translation: An algorithm creates all possible melodies to avoid plagiarism demands)
Le Temps (Switzerland), Ni tout à fait la même, ni tout à fait une autre (translation: Neither quite the same nor quite another)
Tonica (Laos), Dos músicos han generado todas las melodías posibles para prevenir demandas (translation: Two musicians have generated all possible melodies to prevent demands)
MusicTech, Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
SlashDot, Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them To Public Domain
Inside Music, Two musicians have algorithmically generated all possible music melodies and released them in the public domain
iProgrammer, Copyrighting Musical Sequences To Prevent Lawsuits
HypeBot, Effort To Put Every Musical Melody Into Public Domain Reveals Craziness Of Modern Copyright
CelebrityAccess, Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, Stored On A Single Hard Drive
HappyMagTV, Two musicians generate insane database of every possible melody in copyright protest
Input, An algorithm created every possible music melody so songwriters would stop getting sued
Inside Hook, Two Guys Used an Algorithm to Record and Release Every Possible Melody to Stop Musician Lawsuits
ScreenRant, Musician Creates Algorithm To End Music Copyright Lawsuits
UberGizmo, Musicians Use An Algorithm To Generate Every Possible Melody
FutureTime, Musicians Open Every Possible MIDI Melody Combination
Small Tech News, Musicians generate all possible melodies by algorithm and publish them into the public domain
EngNews, An algorithm invents all the melodies imaginable to eradicate copyright lawsuits
MBS News, All theoretically possible melodies now on the net – Will copyright no longer apply?
The Awesomer, Copyrighting All the Melodies
GoTechDaily, Two Guys Utilized an Algorithm to Report and Launch Just about every Probable Melody to Quit Musician Lawsuits
Bitshare, Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
RTBF.be (Belgium), Copyright: a-t-on déjà utilisé toutes les mélodies possibles dans la musique? (translation: Copyright: have we already used all possible melodies in music?)
Republic (Asia), Musician Create Every Melody Possible To End Music Copyright Lawsuit Claims
Hackaday, Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All the Melodies
Intelligent Living, Every Possible Melody has been Released to Public Domain
La Información (Spain), Adiós a los derechos de autor: crean un algoritmo capaz de componer melodías (translation: Goodbye to copyright: create an algorithm capable of composing melodies)
Heute (Austria), Algorithmus: Jetzt gibt es keine neue Melodie mehr (translation: Algorithm: Now there is no new melody)
I Programmer, Copyrighting Musical Sequences To Prevent Lawsuits
TechBang (China), “Copyright Rogue” Terminator: 6 days in 6 days, 68.7 billion melodies were written, all for free for public use (Original: 「版權流氓」終結者：6天時間，寫出687億段旋律，全部無償讓大眾使用
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News18 (India), How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Keep Plagiarism in the Music Industry in Check
American University Intellectual Property Brief, Artificial Intelligence and a New Wave of Music Copyright Questions