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Re:Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight by maxlybbert on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:25PM (#15224039)
I don't like that argument. In Feist, the Supreme Court said that creativity is what matters, not how much work was involved. And it doesn't have to be much creativity at that.
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Re:Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight by ringaroundthetx on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:52PM (#15224421)
When he said "did enough", he meant creativity, or easily could mean that.
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Re:Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight by maxlybbert on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:17AM (#15226113)
The article says "Mr Slater, of Chepstow, said he put in a lot of effort which was more than enough for him to claim copyright." "A lot of effort" sounds like "sweat of the brow copyright" to me, which was explicitly rejected by the Supreme Court in the US.
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