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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the monkey'ing-around dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:55PM (#541235)

    Ars Technica is about the only site to notice so far

    No. You'll find coverage at TechRights, [google.com] especially in their quasi-daily news digest, which will reveal other coverage.

    ...and TechDirt has been all over this. [google.com]
    They have even been using it as a meme.

    N.B. Ars has an anti-FOSS contingent which makes me less trustful of that site's news coverage than other sites.
    An M$-friendly slant that has been purchased is not a good thing IMO.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday July 19 2017, @05:53AM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 19 2017, @05:53AM (#541343) Journal

    Fair enough. Ars and many of the other news sites really have a noticeable anti-FOSS slant much of the time or at least have some dedicated M$-oriented staff with no FOSS-oriented staff to balance it out. That is even with FOSS holding a slight majority of the market these days.

    Anyway, it seems I wrote a bad summary and should have excluded the first paragraph as it makes a distraction rather than provides background. PETA seems willing to try to break the web on the way to reach its goals. There are enough bad actors out there that would help them just that far for their own reasons.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @08:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @08:09AM (#541371)

      Not so much.
      It's gotten lots of discussion going.

      Keep plugging away at it.
      The queue can always use more stuff and practice makes perfect.
      ...says the guy who has a big pile of rejected submissions.

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