No Copyright For Works Not Created By Humans, Says U.S. Copyright Office

“Marking an end to the controversy surrounding the ‘monkey selfie,’ a self-portrait snapped by a particularly photogenic macaque in Indonesia in 2011, the US Copyright Office” has ruled that it “will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being … the Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1pfNL1c

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