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The problem with this technology is it's only good for personal usage. It certainly can't be released legally for profit. This tech is basically stealing from others without their knowledge or consent.
John
I don't think that argument holds up in the law. You cannot copyright chord progressions. It seems that you can make a case for stylistic theft, (Blurred Lines) but the similarities have to be unmistakable. Even when they are unmistakable to my ear (Taurus), the side that seemed justified (Spirit) lost.
Stated another way; IMHO Nashville has distilled down about 50 chord melody/vocal melody combinations that they re-write to differing lyrics...and put on the radio. They mix and match verse and chorus and prechorus and bridge "pieces" but they go to what works selecting out of the same overall stack...and it works. All of the 50 or so melody combinations have precedents in some original work dating back to the 1950s and (I think) that a case could be made for derivation and shared copyrights in thousands of songs in the country genre alone...but it doesnt happen.
If those thousands of derivations are not contested, I doubt that a winning case can be made against almost all AI derivatives, because whether "created" by machine or organism, derivative "borrowing" and "influence" are the same thing."
Again, the similarities (copying) have to be unmistakable.
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