Examining the line between good and evil: policeman turned author releases debt novel
He’s worked some of the most dogged jobs, evacuating burning towns during the 2015 Christmas Day bushfires in the Otways and trod the ground around coastal plane crashes. Now, Geelong policeman David Hicks has released his debut novel and it's flying off the shelves.
Music festival security guard allegedly assaults three police officers
Music festival security guard allegedly assaults three police officers
Recording All the Melodies
In this recent TED Talk, lawyer, musician, and technologist Damien Riehl talks about the rapidly diminishing number of melodies available to songwriters under the current system of copyright. In order to help songwriters avoid these melodic legal landmines (some of which are documented here), Riehl and his pal Noah Rubin designed and wrote a program to record every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody and released the results — all 68+ billion melodies, 2.6 terabytes of data — into the public domain.
It’s interesting that the litigious nature of the music business and the finite number of melodies (and the even smaller number of pleasing melodies) has turned an artistic endeavor into a land-grab — whoever gets to a certain melody first owns it forever (or at least for dozens of years)