Right, but we don't want to just "take it down"; we want to extract rent from the efforts of others by legal means.
To move into the music industry, we might patent the idea of "notes" and thereby gain royalties on all extant music... certainly any future music, what with "prior art" and all...
But arranging tones in families by resonances and using that system to make a written representation of tones for the purposes of later independent reproduction of the sequence of sound? That's a patent-able idea, at least as much as "Method and arrangement for data compression according to the LZ77 algorithm"
To move into the music industry, we might patent the idea of "notes" and thereby gain royalties on all extant music... certainly any future music, what with "prior art" and all...
But arranging tones in families by resonances and using that system to make a written representation of tones for the purposes of later independent reproduction of the sequence of sound? That's a patent-able idea, at least as much as "Method and arrangement for data compression according to the LZ77 algorithm"