P'E'TA Corp. (again) for the monkie selfie thing (AGAIN)

Started by evensgrey, June 12, 2017, 12:51:19 PM

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The legal circus continues.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170605/00025737514/monkey-selfie-case-gets-even-weirder-as-monkeys-next-friends-are-criminal-dispute-with-each-other.shtml

So, the guy who's camera was used to take the selfie in question has parted ways with P'E'TA Corp., and there is now a criminal case against him for trespassing on property owned by one of P'E'TA Corp.'s people.  Meanwhile, they keep trying to appeal the judge's ruling that, as a mater of law, there can be no copyright on the picture.  (Copyright law is pretty messed up in the US, and I've seen appellate courts overturn rulings based entirely on the straight law, as happened in SCO v. IBM when the non-creation of the statutorily required sales contract to transfer ownership of the UNIX sourcecode copyrights somehow didn't mean that they couldn't have transferred and a jury had to decide, which then proceeded to find as the law states that the copyrights did not transfer from Novell because the required specific transfer contract was never created, but come ON.)  This one really IS settled law:  Copyrights only exist on human-created works under the law in all relevant countries.  There was the whole business with the painting elephant to settle that one for good.

Already on the list, but thanks! We'll have a lot to catch up from when I get back from vacation.