The MIDI you created is outstanding. Full of originality and your friends tell you that you have composing talent galore. You are excited and encouraged to continue composing music.
Now consider the following statement. All sound is resident in one form or another from the beginning of time. Originality presumes that your MIDI has never been heard from the beginning of time. So it may violate copyright law.
Your project is prepare a copyright application and defend that your MIDI is original and may be copyright.
Ten big myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton..
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers or ASCAP.
Copyright in layman's language.
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