Intellectual property[edit]

"Music Genome Project" is a registered trademark in the United States. The mark is owned by the company Pandora Media, Inc.[5]


The Music Genome Project is covered by U.S. patent 7,003,515 which shows William T. Glaser, Timothy B. Westergren, Jeffrey P. Stearns, and Jonathan M. Kraft as the inventors of this technology. The patent has been assigned to Pandora Media, Inc. With that initial patent filed, most of the intellectual property associated with Glaser's founding algorithm remains a trade secret to this day.


The full list of attributes for individual songs is not publicly released, and ostensibly constitutes a trade secret.

Moodbar

MusicBrainz

Pandora Radio

WhoSampled

—short historical statement by Tim Westergren

"The Music Genome Project"

Patent Number 7003515—Consumer item matching method and system

Early interview with Tim Westergren about the Music Genome Project and Pandora

Inside the Net Interview with Tim Westergren of Pandora Media

March 23, 2007

Interview with Tim Westergren

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Interview with Tim Westergren about the Music Genome Project and Pandora

The first music of genes by Jean-claude Perez 1994 SACEM GEN0694