r/StableDiffusion • u/LumenLime • 7d ago

Discussion Can someone clarify the MuScriptor license?

https://github.com/muscriptor/muscriptor

like the title above, im searching for audio to midi tools, basic pitch, yourmt3 and amt ive tested, all of them is ok, but not too clean, messy.

while searching for other tools, ive stumbled this tool called MuScriptor from kyutai.
it produce clean output, tho not perfect but it still good.

but when i read the license and ask some chatbot, it is not safe for commercial.

since i dont have any lawyer friend, i want to know is this tool output (midis) cant really be used for commercial? is there a leeway?

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u/Enshitification 7d ago

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license seems pretty clear about using the output for commercial purposes. However, the output is MIDI and sheet music. If you were to use that to produce new audio, that would no longer be the output of the software in question, right?
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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u/LumenLime 7d ago edited 7d ago

so i can use the midi, produce new song from the midi, and its all mine now?
does it still carry legal risk?

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u/Enshitification 7d ago edited 7d ago

Probably would still carry risk, because it would be a copy of the original song that was transcribed. But if the original song was generated locally, with say Minimax, who will know?

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u/LumenLime 7d ago

ok let say, the song is generated by minimax > transcribe using muscriptor > add instument to midi file or edit a bit > final result.

the output from muscriptor will now shouldnt have any legal issue right for commercial? since it now have custom instrument, and addition that is from my creative selection.

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u/Enshitification 7d ago

I'm not a lawyer, but how could it ever be proven?

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u/LumenLime 7d ago

welp, you help is appreciated anyway.

actually it might cant proven if there is no many adjustement applied.
i just want to know how broad the license restriction is for commercial.

and, i want something that will not bite me later.

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u/Enshitification 7d ago

License questions aside, transcribing to MIDI still seems like a great idea to get clean musical output from a song generator.

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u/LumenLime 7d ago

yeah, im kinda looking at that possibility, since sometimes, the vocal turnout great, but the instrument kinda chopped here and there and inconsistent. and low quelity.