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On the other hand, most other photos are copyright by the person who took the photo. However, in those cases, it was a camera that took the photo, not a human.
by munificent 7y ago
On the other hand, most other photos are copyright by the person who took the photo. However, in those cases, it was a camera that took the photo, not a human. The camera contained a digital computer that executed code (not even written by the photographer in this case!) in order to produce a series of values stored on digital media. All the human did was push a button to tell it to go.
There is also a long history of generative art and as far as I know, the author of the code retains full copyright to the works produced by the program.
- gmiller123456 7y agoI think you were trying to be a bit disingenuous, but that is actually true. Just because a human pressed a button on a camera does not mean the image is copyrightable. Example case [1] 1: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/18-13233/18-13233-2019-05-01.html https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/1...
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- vanniv 7y agoGenerally, the human applies creativity in choosing the location, angle, exposure settings, and timing of "pressing the button"