[HN Gopher] Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as son...
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       Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator
        
       Author : pshaw
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-10-31 02:12 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | debo_ wrote:
       | I was really hoping this was about the iconic song "Ecuador" by
       | Sash!
        
       | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
       | Probably not everyone's cup of tea but it's not bad.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRjncYGLHE
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       | (Cosmo Sheldrake is one of the composers, so this seems to be an
       | original upload of the song.)
        
         | markdown wrote:
         | UNAVAILABLE           This video is not available.
        
       | Aloisius wrote:
       | So... how long would the copyright be good for then? Life of the
       | forest + 70 years?
        
       | tivert wrote:
       | > If the agency grants moral authorship to the forest alongside
       | the song's co-creators, it is expected that copyright authorities
       | in other nations would have to acknowledge the same moral
       | authorship.
       | 
       | So is this really meant as some kind of backdoor activist legal
       | hack (e.g. use this copyright case to ultimately change the
       | environmental policy of some major countries)? It smells a little
       | like
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
       | [1].
       | 
       | [1] Also the coda of that monkey case is a pretty good example of
       | the value of copyright outside the MPAA/RIAA/Reed Elsevier/etc.
       | focus pushed by anti-IP activists.
        
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