Debian debates AI models and the DFSG

> The "specific expression" refers to the actual words, images, or sounds used to convey something, not the broader concept of it.

Again, I'm thinking of a particular example. I don't know the outcome, but some musician sued saying another musician had "copied his guitar riff". Given that a riff is a chord sequence, eg IV V I, the shorter the riff the more likely it is another musician either stumbled on it by accident, or it's actually a common sequence in a lot of music. If I try and play a well-known piano sequence on the guitar, chances are I'll transpose the key and it'll sound very like someone else's riff that I may never even have heard ...

(I am a guitar player, but classical, so I don't play riffs ... :-)

Again, this is a big problem with modern copyright law where so much may be - as you describe it - a "scene a faire", but people don't recognise them as such.

Cheers,
Wol