Computer generated lyrics should be owned by the human using the particular program. The author of the software should not.
One of the greatest honors and pleasures of my life was that I got to work with and know Iannis Xenakis, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and work extensively using his stochastic music program - computer code and algorithms that generated pitches and rhythms within timbre classes based on choices made by the human composer. I know firsthand that Xenakis himself, the author of the code, felt that the individual using his software owned the expression that came out of the computer. The human composer using Xenakis' stochastic software made many decisions on the power, freedom, limitation, etc. of all of the parameters and expression that went into the piece. One could be as hyper specific of completely random and uncontrolling when it came to musical/structural decisions. And even then, when one was finished and out came the musical work, one was free to abide by what the computer gave you or not. --- Back to the intent of Xenakis, the author. He felt, as do I, that the any person can use this software and that way results from its use is the copyrighted work of that user. I think this should also apply to software that generates text/lyrics. I liken Xenakis' brilliant stochastic music program, to a great extent, to the idea-expression dichotomy, and that a particular individual owns what has been generated (expressed).
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Computer generated lyrics should be owned by the human
One of the greatest honors and pleasures of my life was that I got to work with and know Iannis Xenakis, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and work extensively using his stochastic music program - computer code and algorithms that generated pitches and rhythms within timbre classes based on choices made by the human composer. I know firsthand that Xenakis himself, the author of the code, felt that the individual using his software owned the expression that came out of the computer. The human composer using Xenakis' stochastic software made many decisions on the power, freedom, limitation, etc. of all of the parameters and expression that went into the piece. One could be as hyper specific of completely random and uncontrolling when it came to musical/structural decisions. And even then, when one was finished and out came the musical work, one was free to abide by what the computer gave you or not. --- Back to the intent of Xenakis, the author. He felt, as do I, that the any person can use this software and that way results from its use is the copyrighted work of that user. I think this should also apply to software that generates text/lyrics. I liken Xenakis' brilliant stochastic music program, to a great extent, to the idea-expression dichotomy, and that a particular individual owns what has been generated (expressed).
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