In blues music, there’s a long tradition of borrowing melodic and lyrical phrases, and in music generally, there are only so many ways to create a musical phrase. I think it’s becoming harder and harder to “own” one’s own music anymore. A performance/recording, yes, but to into a court and  claim that a melody is original and never been strung…[Read more]

I’m sure legal departments all over the place are working hard to protect creators and IP owners from AI rehash. Trouble is that tech departments are always a step ahead of them. And of course, patents, copyright and trademark protection are all very different. For instance, the complexity in licensing music for reproduction, publishing,…[Read more]

The word “different” is key to IP claims, and yet it doesn’t mean much at all without some definitional narrowing of the meaning for a particular purpose.

For example, even two guitars made by Fender, identical part numbers from their catalog, are different if only because they don’t occupy the same space. This one’s here, that one’s over there.

If I take what you said literally I’m both liable for referring the copyrighted work to the AI but not liable because the AI (“no human”) created.

I take that to mean that I (a third party) can use the generated art any way I want with no liability. As if in Public Domain. It is different from the original, so I’m not infringing on the origi…[Read more]