Technology Choices

The page or area describing the choices available to us through or by your chosen technology/topic.

There have previously been decisions and legislations regarding whether a musical work is protected, such as the final report made by National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) in 1978, which concludes that the possibility of copyright protection depends on the presence of human creative effort, which means that music jointly generated by human and computers (even if it contains minimum human effort) can have copyrights, and results created solely by a machine without creative participation of a human author wouldn’t (CONTU, 1978). However, Hristov (2016) argues that there has been no changes to the copyright act that reflects the most recent advances of machine learning and AI, or in other words, these legislations are outdated and there is need for modernization. Hristov (2016) states that we need to recognize the need for incentives (provided by copyright) for programmers to stimulate future development of AI, and to acknowledge that humans are no longer the only source of innovation and creative works. In the same way, Makhmutov et al., (2020) states that joint music generation is the direction that we’re heading towards, and that there needs to be legislations and copyright laws in place from all countries to move towards new level of interaction between humans and computers, particularly artificial intelligence.

This project is based on a template by Tony Clear, and uses W3 and the Mozilla Developer Network for inspiration and support.