Re:No right to relicense this project
by schlauerfox on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:32PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Specifically he claimed he owned the copyright on a photo he didn't directly take.
PETA weighed in trying to say the monkey owned the copyright.
Re:No right to relicense this project
by kube-system on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:43PM
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Ah yeah you’re right I forgot it was PETA arguing that.
** this case is similar to an old case where a photographer claimed a monkey owned a copyright to a photo, because they said a monkey took the photo completely on their own. The court said "okay well, it's public domain then because only humans can have copyrights"
Imagine you put a harry potter book in a copy machine. It is correct that the copy machine would not have a copyright to the output. But you would still be violating copyright by distributing the output.