{"id":268,"date":"2009-11-07T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-11-07T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T21:30:00","slug":"bluebeat%e2%80%99s-innovative-defense-that-will-never-hold-up-in-court-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/bluebeat%e2%80%99s-innovative-defense-that-will-never-hold-up-in-court-music.php","title":{"rendered":"BlueBeat\u2019s Innovative Defense That Will Never Hold Up in Court [Music]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hank Risan was ordered to pull<\/a> The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were \"psycho-acoustic simulations\" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hold up in court.<\/p>

Hank calls the technique equivalent to a virtual cover band playing The Beatles' songs. He bought all of their albums, had a computer analyze the waveforms to determine their pitch, timbre and other defining qualities, then destroyed the original copies of the music.<\/p>

He then had a computer reconstruct the songs based on the data it collected from analyzing the waveforms. It wasn't a recording, but a complete mathematical rebuild of the song.<\/p>

That's really cool, and incredibly impressive that he managed to recreate the tracks from scratch like that, but there's no way the defense stands a chance against EMI's lawyers. I think I remember this argument being tried before with MP3s. A defendant claimed that because a majority of the waveform data was thrown away during encoding, it was not identical to the original recording.<\/p>

Nice try, said the judge. As long as it's audibly identifiable as a certain recording, it constitutes as copyright infringement. At least that's what I remember. If anyone knows the specific case or I'm completely wrong, please chime in. Have fun in court November 20, Mr. Risan. [FastCompany<\/a>]<\/p>





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