The writer and poet Robert Macfarlane argues that copyright laws should protect nature https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/17/rob-macfarlane-sometimes-i-felt-as-if-the-river-was-writing-me
"As I think you know, [the Earth rights scholar] César [Rodríguez-Garavito], [the mycologist] Giuliana [Furci] and [the musician] Cosmo [Sheldrake] and I, as well as, of course, the Los Cedros cloud forest, have brought a case in the Ecuador court system to recognise the moral authorship of the cloud forest in the song that was written in the course of the book’s research [called Song of the Cedars]." #copyright #authorship #nature #animals