Damian Reel, lawyer, programmer and bachelor of music, and Noah Rubin, musician, (Damien Riehl, Noah Rubin) wrote a program that generated all possible short 12-bar melodies using 8 notes within an octave (about 69 billion combinations), registered them on behalf of their company All the Music, LLC and released into the public domain. Posted on archive.org 1200 Gb in tar.gz archives with several hundred melodies. (Problem in archives: all permission bits are cleared, chmod -R a+rw may be needed.)
Stated purpose - prevent lawsuits like Tom Patty's against Sam Smith, who was found guilty of subconsciously copying a tune. If in the future someone demands money from someone because their melody is similar to an existing one, it will be possible to refer to the archive. At least if the plaintiffβs melody was published after the archive was posted.
The program itself, which goes through combinations of notes, posted on GitHub licensed under Creative Commons-Share Alike 4.0. Language - Rust. The authors compare its work with brute force passwords, 300 combinations per second.
Reel explains that the number of tunes is finite, YouTube
Source: linux.org.ru