Keeping animals in cages in zoos is unnatural (for most of the animals). Doing so facilitates education that changes our ethics and behaviour in a way that encourages people to foster biodiversity. Teaching difficult concepts on pollution and climate change is unpleasant for quite a few people. Doing so facilitates understanding how we are wreaking the environment on a global scale and encourages people to lobby for changes to how we use our resources. As long as a problem exists, you have to keep on teaching. Removing orangs from zoos is like removing chapters on climate change from textbooks -- you are fostering ignorance, not understanding and empathy.
I don't know enough about Argentinian law to be sure, but this sounds like they're twisting the law around an agenda, which tends to lead to unforeseen side effects due to the off-axis precedent.
That's another silly decision. From the article, if the picture is taken when an animal triggers a motion detector or tripwire, the picture is copyright of the person setting up the camera trap. A tripwire is an extension of a shutter-release on the camera, and allowing a macaque to press the shutter-release directly is the same thing. The macaque does not know that the camera is saving a facsimile of its image to be rebroadcast. Chances are excellent that the macaque would not even recognize itself in a still photo. Thus, the macaque is not taking a photo, it is pressing a button on an artifact. Next, someone will be arguing that the macaque's actions are performance art...
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Date: 2014-12-23 03:42 pm (UTC)Teaching difficult concepts on pollution and climate change is unpleasant for quite a few people. Doing so facilitates understanding how we are wreaking the environment on a global scale and encourages people to lobby for changes to how we use our resources. As long as a problem exists, you have to keep on teaching. Removing orangs from zoos is like removing chapters on climate change from textbooks -- you are fostering ignorance, not understanding and empathy.
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Date: 2014-12-23 06:32 pm (UTC)http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/22/monkey-business-macaque-selfie-cant-be-copyrighted-say-us-and-uk
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