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About six years ago photographrapher David Slater was taking pictures of monkeys and got a monkey to take a selfie with his equipment. The case has been in and out of court over copyright issues because while it was Slater's equipment and he set up the situation some claim that it is the monkey who holds copyright over the image while others claim that no one at all has copyright over the image. A serious attempt is being made to use the case to push for copyright and other ownership rights for non-humans. The image is now being use to try to force the issue of non-human rights, using methods that might do a lot of damage along the way.
Ars Technica is about the only site to notice so far. They write that the case is no laughing matter. PETA's quest for animals to own property could end the web as we know it. Specifically this image has become relevant to the future of the WWW and the Internet because the strategy chosen involves first asserting that companies that supply tools for people to self-publish their own works can be held liable for the content posted or uploaded by third parties.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday July 19 2017, @12:12AM (4 children)
This ain't happening via legislation or executive action, this is lawless courts. So unless Trump is really going to go "God Emperor" and start giving judges helicopter rides there won't be anything he can do.
But I don't think there are enough judges, even in the 9th Circus, to pull something like this off yet. The only way PETA has standing is if they argue the monkey isn't competent to represent itself, which means it can't hold a copyright. Unless the monkey can execute a power of attorney and convince a judge it knows what that is and did it of its own free will. To ignore all of that would be to expose the lawlessness that has been pervading the Judiciary for decades to such an extent the normies might notice, for little gain for The Narrative. Don't think they are ready to risk it. Almost certain the current SCOTUS configuration isn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @12:36AM (3 children)
I was thinking along similar lines, but my mind went to Andrew Jackson's comment about the unconstitutionality of the forced "resettlement" of Native Americans.
John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it. [google.com]
...and fuck Google.
I put in a text string AS A PHRASE in a VERBATIM search and it's the 16th "hit" before they find and highlight that string--unless I put it in -multiple- times.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @01:05AM (1 child)
On behalf of the Google team, thank you for your loyalty.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @01:27AM
Apparently, the Old Hands cash out and retire and the young whippersnappers that are hired to replace them never bother to see what the old code does before paving over that with their new whiz-bang hipster shit.
In particular, the syntax used for highlighting cached pages has been a victim of this, multiple times.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @02:50PM
I got better results with Ecosia and DuckDuckGo, though Google's results were decent. Didn't seem as bad as it was for you. But I did click your link first, so maybe the Oracle at Google already knew what I was after.
I haven't used Google for my day-to-day searches in well over a year or two now.