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Creative Sparks: Works Of Nature, Selection, And The Human Author, Neal F. Burstyn
Creative Sparks: Works Of Nature, Selection, And The Human Author, Neal F. Burstyn
Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
It is now common knowledge that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, they will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. But according to the United States Copyright Office, if you give that same group of monkeys a camera, you do not get copyright in any pictures they may happen to take. In 2011, British wildlife photographer David Slater was in Indonesia when a group of crested black macaques began playing with his camera equipment and snapped some pictures, one of which went viral and proved temporarily profitable for Slater. The popular image, known …
Preliminary Comments On Restatement Of Copyright, Draft 2, Jane C. Ginsburg, June M. Besek
Preliminary Comments On Restatement Of Copyright, Draft 2, Jane C. Ginsburg, June M. Besek
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Preliminary Draft 2 of the Restatement of Copyright. These are preliminary comments, given the short time frame provided to review the draft, and we anticipate sending further comments after we’ve had the opportunity to study the draft further, or as a follow-up to the Advisers’ meeting and the Consultative Group meeting on November 10 and 11, 2016, respectively.