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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
The song contains melodies of echo-locating bats, howler monkeys, rustling leaves and even a subterranean recording of the soil taken from the spot where a new species of fungus was collected and described. Photograph: Robert Macfarlane“It gives us confidence and a firm legal foundation that we can make this claim in Ecuador,” said Rodríguez-Garavito, the chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law and founding director of Moth. Photograph: Robert MacfarlaneFurci said: “It’s fitting that the song will launch at this event, where we will be looking at new ways to measure, diagnose, treat and protect the living world, incorporating a kingdom of life that has never been recognised in those legal frameworks.”
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