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If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos, unless he somehow gets the monkeys to convincingly understand
by serichsen 15y ago
If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos, unless he somehow gets the monkeys to convincingly understand copyright and convincingly express their will to license him.
I think that this is absurd.
- estel 15y agoI imagine that the law would be interpreted to say that monkeys are not legally allowed to hold copyright, and the works in questions therefore have no copyright.
- derleth 15y ago> If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos This is overstating things: You can reproduce the photos if you are using them to comment on them, to parody them, as part of a news piece, or as part of scholarly research, among other things. You might have to convince a court that what you did was fair use but my point is there are exceptions to the absolute you stated.