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Nature as co-author: reshaping copyright and intellectual property to include non-human beings Back to Gaia: the first collecting society for the rights of animals and plants — a new framework for art and patents beyond human ownership
The talk takes examples from design, music, the visual arts, and the creative industries to show how numerous apparently human works are actually the result of a cross-species creative process.
It then moves on to copyright law and case studies and examines the first concrete signs that point in the direction of acknowledging this special kind of creative process and explores emerging initiatives that are developing alongside the broader movement for the rights of Nature.
It uses legal, cultural, creative, and artistic perspectives to explain why works inspired by Nature can be understood within the framework of copyright law as collaborative creations between a human and other living entities such as plants, animals, insects, or ecosystems.
The talk concludes by addressing a contemporary paradox: while authorship remains strictly human when it comes to Nature, legal and academic debates are increasingly arguing in favour of copyright protection for works generated by AI, which is, of course, a non-human entity.
