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This ruling is consistent IMO with the Monkey Takes a Selfie ruling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• randyrand 3y ago
  I've always found that ruling so bad. Who pushes the button is the least important part of photography and can be easily automated. It's choosing the subject matter, getting the camera to that location, angles, exposure, lenses, and taking the time to do it all that is the creative part. For the sake of argument, if a camera had 5 years of storage and battery life and was left running from the factory, should canon own everything it produced? Is pushing the shutter button really the most important question?
  • dale_glass 3y ago
    > I've always found that ruling so bad. Who pushes the button is the least important part of photography and can be easily automated. It's choosing the subject matter, getting the camera to that location, angles, exposure, lenses, and taking the time to do it all that is the creative part. Wasn't the point that all those things were absent in that case? If the monkey indeed snatch the camera completely unexpectedly, and then proceeded to take a selfie of itself, then the photographer didn't choose the subject matter, location, angles, exposure, or anything else.