A lawyer who hated the music lawsuits over melodies got together with a programmer to write some code to generate all possible 8 and 12 note melodies and to copyright them, and put those copyrights into public domain to prevent people from claiming ownership over such melodies.
And they did: http://allthemusic.info
A lawyer who hated the music lawsuits over melodies got together with a programmer to write some code to generate all possible 8 and 12 note melodies and to copyright them, and put those copyrights into public domain to prevent people from claiming ownership over such melodies.