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> how indirect the chain of causality is A monkey didn't sneak into his hotel room and take a happy snap. He sought them out and spent days with them, and hand
by vacri 9y ago
> how indirect the chain of causality is
A monkey didn't sneak into his hotel room and take a happy snap. He sought them out and spent days with them, and handed his equipment to them. That's not 'indirect causality'.
By your reasoning, if I was to put a camera in a tumble-dryer and let it snap photos while spinning, those photos would not be mine because whilst I set up the circumstances, the actual photos were not specifically composed by me.
Far too much emphasis is placed here on who pressed the physical button, and not who brought everything together.
- int_19h 9y ago> By your reasoning, if I was to put a camera in a tumble-dryer and let it snap photos while spinning, those photos would not be mine because whilst I set up the circumstances, the actual photos were not specifically composed by me. I don't have a problem with that consequence. Copyright is supposed to reward creativity. I don't consider "photo made by putting camera into a tumble dryer" creative in any meaningful sense. I understand that a lot of modern performance art would probably be excluded with this approach - but I don't see it as a problem, either.