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This reminds me of the Monkey Selfie[1] dispute. A photographer set up a camera in a forest and a monkey came by and activated it and took a picture. The result
by imgabe 2y ago
This reminds me of the Monkey Selfie[1] dispute. A photographer set up a camera in a forest and a monkey came by and activated it and took a picture. The resulting picture became famous and PETA tied up the photographer in court for years trying to get the copyright assigned to the monkey. They ultimately failed and it went to the photographer.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- latexr 2y agoThis case is notably different because here the human artists are the ones fighting for the forest’s copyright.
- bawolff 2y ago> They ultimately failed and it went to the photographer. Afaik, neither ended up owning the copyright (in usa, britian is more complex). The monkey doesn't own it, but neither does the photographer dude. An interesting part of the case is it seems like PETA were mostly motivated by their own selfish interests to make money. Which is one of the big problems with nature legal personhood - at some point a human has to make decisions for the natural entity, and interests might be misaligned.