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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 01:16 AM EDT |
I don't understand this. You can't patent music, but you also can't directly
patent computer programs. For example, a computer-implemented method
maybe
implemented by a computer program. A computer program printed out
on a piece
of paper is copyrightable but it is not covered by any patent. The
computer
program itself is not covered by the patent. Instead, the patent
covers the
computer program running on the computer, regardless of how the
computer is
entered on the computer. It doesn't matter whether the program is
entered
using a keyboard, punch cards, or a musical instrument, the result is
the same
in each case; the computer is programed to perform certain steps.
Are
you suggesting that any invention that could include expressions
covered by
copyright shouldn't be eligible for patentability? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 12:30 PM EDT |
The MIDI interface has been widely implemented for computers for decades.
Playing a keyboard, guitar, drum or a wind controller sends MIDI messages to the
computer (I haven't got a guitar controller, but I have all the rest).
Using music making software (Cubase, Reaper, Rosegarden etc.) the MIDI codes can
be written into a MIDI file using the computer keyboard which can then be played
back to a hardware MIDI module to play the music. Alternatively, they can be
routed to a software module in the computer to do the same thing (Timidity, in
Linux, Windows Software Synthesizer in Windows (other, better, soft modules are
available)).
The MIDI file can also be translated into a music score on a stave. The MIDI
file can be printed or displayed as text messages and manually edited using the
computer. Computer programs can be written to automatically retime music,
harmonise music, accompany music (e.g. Band In A Box) and compose music.
Every Windows computer since Windows 95 has had the software to play a MIDI file
via the Microsoft software midi synthesizer using up to 16 Instruments (search
C://Windows for files ending in .mid and double click to plays them back.),
symultaneously (well, virtually!) including a complete drum kit and percussion
instruments.
In general, everything you could imagine using a combination of a music keyboard
controller, guitar controller or saxophone controller, a computer MIDI interface
and software, has been done in Windows, Linux and Apple computers.
The problem with your mind experiment is that programming the computer using a
music keyboard is not different to programming a computer with a computer
keyboard.
Perhaps a more likely demonstration is Scratch whereby children create graphic
programs on a computer just by dragging objects across the screen with a mouse.
It is promoted as a computer program for writing games, but that is just a way
of attracting interest.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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