Before AI Music: The Piano-Roll Fight Over Human Creativity
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Who deserves credit and payment when a machine plays music? The piano-roll dispute offers a revealing history of authorship, listening and creative work. Follow Sousa's concerns, the Supreme Court's 1908 decision and Congress's 1909 compromise, then consider what those distinctions can and cannot tell us about today's AI music debate. Context: the published Artist Rights Symposium programme for 19 October 2026; no claim about unverified event outcomes. This episode uses an AI-generated…
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