Post #3089547
2026-03-04 19:48 UTC
@scy@chaos.social @Foxboron@chaos.social It's a bit complicated, actually. IANAL, but this is what I understand:
- The music notation is copyrightable, individual notes are not. A sequence of notes is debatable, and it depends highly on recognizability AFAIK.
- A music recording is copyrightable. Playing that music in a distinctly different arrangement, less of an issue.
- Arguably, a change in digital format is either still the same recording, or sufficiently indistinguishable from it.
- Copyright has an ancient...
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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2026-03-04 19:52
@scy@chaos.social @Foxboron@chaos.social ... naming and goes back to a time where making copies and distributing them was the hard part. This is a non-problem in the digital age, which is why it's fine to create backup copies of copyrighted works, so long as the people accessing them are always the people having purchased/licensed an original copy. So LLMs training on GPL is not itself a copyright violation, and them reproducing similar code isn't either, but then publishing such sufficiently similar code is.