Sebastian Tomczak is a music technologist and professor who likes to upload random experiments to YouTube. One of his clips is just 10-hours of white noise that he generated with open source software.

White noise. Static. The wash of ocean waves breaking. They are the soothing sounds you might use to aid sleep or distraction-free work. But can you copyright them? It's a bizarre question that's ...

Two years ago, 13-year-old Clarisse Poon was looking for relaxing music to help her sleep, but the “deep sleep” music online was too distracting for her. That was until the student came across a ...