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Today, I opened up YouTube on my phone over breakfast and was presented with this video. Feel free to watch it, I'll wait... Now, I follow media law a little, I used to be one of the production team in two of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's capital city newsrooms. I handled audio technical production alongside the bulletin producer (a journalist) for ABC Radio's main bulletins on the hour in the two cities I worked this gig. Although I wasn't a journalist, I was frequently included in editorial discussions surrounding stories because the understanding that editorial policy was a requirement for my technical oversight of audios edits and live crosses. I learned a good smattering of broadcasting and copyright law in my 27 years with "Aunty." The standout takeaway, relevant to this topic - only a human can hold copyrights. A dog can't, a monkey or an ape can't. A computer system, sure as shit , can't hold copyright. As per Arts Law Austral...

When you go a-scrolling, entering the search terms "drum robot" into your default "sengine," a few things come up, like Compressorhead's heavy metal covers, a million dollar pneumatic actuated robotic live band. Then there are the usual, incomplete, or niche, hobbyist things, basic busker gimmicks or student science projects. All good, valid stuff, sure, but none of it generalised. Well, there's some SparkFun stuff and an art project, too, but the generalisations are perhaps... too general? So, generalising a robotic drum kit development kit seems the unfilled niche. So that's what I've started to turn my own drumming robot system towards. Meanwhile, looking at the other kind of drum robot, arguably the first modern ones at least, analog drum machines, the latest crop of 606 clones from both Roland and Behringer, have MIDI, a luxury the originals couldn't afford while aiming for a sub-1980s pricepoint with 1980s tech in the 1980s. MIDI is the l...