I wrote this music and lyrics. It's wholly my melody line, story, progression, idea, direction, genre, key, time signature.....produced using a.i. tools, to include the singer. But everything else, I created. Sooooo....is this melody line mine? It's distinct. You could argue whether it's a lovely melody or even memorable. But do I own it? I've had the melody, progression in my head and it ended up something that almost always gets worked into my "work out" wank fest warm up. I've always loved it. I married it with some lyrics, uploaded the guitar part/stem to SUNO and created this operatic pop song around it. Soooo.......(Ben et al)....does it qualify as legally mine or just more a.i. shite??
Can I promote it as an original piece as such, giving SUNO their production and "artist" nod?
It's an evolving legal question but SUNO is tightening up their game and attempting to separate the wheat from the chaff while promoting "legit" music. Is this legit? Ya know, more and more I feel A.I. assisted music does more to expose perhaps the racket run by corporate music for decades. 4 notes gave "Close Encounters" it's musical identity. And a most memorable song created around it, that remains in most boomer's heads today. Made millions. Awards. A percentage for life of the movie sales. 4 notes!

Anyhoo....love to hear what yer thinkin?

https://suno.com/s/E4yTFjYtKrsfiw6f


Sophie's Peak
Copyright OpenMikeMusic 2026

These fertile fields are filled aplenty,
a mountain hides behind her gain,
where lived a man who lost his lover
to the mountain that bears her name.

She started up, bitter cold and early,
longed to see the sun rise there,
where it's said the sun paints the valley
all the colors blue to red.

Darkness fell, there came a silence,
he listened long for her sweetest call,
none would come, months turned colder,
a sadness he could not resolve.

(short piano solo w/cello harmony)

for a year he tried to find her,
took his life upon her peak,
was it Sophia, or the grim reminder
of the colors she'd never see.

He used to come to Sophie's place
where the sun paints wide the valley floor
colors splashing on the mountain face,
only made her dream about them more.

The chastened fields now flat and barren
once filled with abundant grain,
a distant peak, an aging headstone,
sits a mountain that bears her name.

Last edited by Michael W. Brown; 08/22/26 11:12 PM.
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