How AI could help fight plagiarism in the music business

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Spotify is reportedly working on an algorithm that could warn songwriters if their compositions copy elements of other songs, potentially exposing them to plagiarism lawsuits.

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Spotify is currently working on an algorithm that could let musicians know whether their latest compositions copy parts of existing songs, reports the specialist magazine,. Patent applications were apparently filed at the end of November in the United States and in Europe, for a new technology named"Plagiarism Risk Detector and Interface."

"Such a tool would allow artists to generate lead sheets more quickly and confidently by detecting and providing visual feedback as to whether any aspect of the work has a probability of being deemed plagiaristic," reads the Spotify patent, quoted inAlthough the Swedish streaming giant hasn't said when its"plagiarism detector" could see the light of day, other researchers are working on algorithms that could spare artists the pain of discovering that their latest tune...

In an effort to protect artists who might unintentionally compose a tune resembling one of these 68.7 billion melodies, the two lawyers turned them over to the public domain, making the melodies available online via Internet Archive, and sharing the code that generated them. The pair also used a Creative Commons Zero license to release the melodies, which means they have no rights reserved over them.

 

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