Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator
Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship
A forest in Ecuador could be recognised as the co-creator of a song under a groundbreaking legal proposal.
A petition is to be submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise the Los Cedros cloud forest as the co-creator of the composition Song of the Cedars. The action by the More Than Human Life (Moth) project is the first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship of a work of art.
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