<story><title>Katy Perry&apos;s Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dark-horse-music-industry-1.5235743</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>New business model: have an AI generate every chord progression in every tempo, release the &amp;quot;songs&amp;quot; on your own label, and sue everyone who releases a song after you.</text></item><item><author>aaronarduino</author><text>This sort of feels like the start of the music business&amp;#x27;s version of patent trolls. I think this verdict devalues music and hampers creativity.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I posted this the other day. Absolutely terrible, IMO. A minor artist can take millions from an artist who releases a song with a passing resemblance. You can hear similarities in SO many songs. And SO many songs are inspired by others - great art is full of inspiration.&lt;p&gt;I dread where this ends up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Glyptodon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always wondered if someone could copyright strike most of YouTube by having a channel filled with permutations of various sorts of ambient background noise.</text></comment>
<story><title>Katy Perry&apos;s Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dark-horse-music-industry-1.5235743</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>New business model: have an AI generate every chord progression in every tempo, release the &amp;quot;songs&amp;quot; on your own label, and sue everyone who releases a song after you.</text></item><item><author>aaronarduino</author><text>This sort of feels like the start of the music business&amp;#x27;s version of patent trolls. I think this verdict devalues music and hampers creativity.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I posted this the other day. Absolutely terrible, IMO. A minor artist can take millions from an artist who releases a song with a passing resemblance. You can hear similarities in SO many songs. And SO many songs are inspired by others - great art is full of inspiration.&lt;p&gt;I dread where this ends up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostphilosopher</author><text>Pattern Trolls</text></comment>