Uh, no. *Music itself* is copyrighted. The notes. Playing music isn't "executing" sheet music in the software sense, it is *interpreting* sheet music where the output (your performance) continues to contain the same notes, which are copyrighted. Melodies are explicitly copyrightable.
The software equivalent would be running the server app under an execution tracer that streams back every instruction executed to the user, but that's again not how SaaS works.
Hector Martin
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2024-08-18 15:21:19 UTC
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