and now caters news agency is sending out cease and desist orders to people like tech com who posted the photo and tech there to saying well you don't own the copyright and agency wrote back to them and they will neither do you so you can't post it all properly even in its current absurd iteration and we've talked about it before it's effectively a global look bottom e this perpetual copyright as lawrence lessig calls it doesn't extend to the animal kingdom now the monkey took a photo of himself and if anyone owns the copyright it would be the monkey. for the moki. using his psychic abilities. to contact an attorney immediately and to sue caters perhaps monkey wants people to know about his ideas and his plight in indonesia as the reinforcer being shot down well that's right the the wilds of the ideas are what engender creativity and driven human creativity and evolution for millennia and the fact that copyright law and intellectual property laws are chopping down the end of the landscape for ideas just like there are clear cutting forest where this monkey poor monkeys living

owns the camera or whatever so the the man who took this photo david slater was working for caters news agency and now caters news agency is sending out cease and desist orders to people like tech dirt dot com who posted the photo and saying well you don't own the copyright and.

and now caters news agency is sending out cease and desist orders to people like tech dirt dot com who posted the photo and tech artist saying well you don't own the copyright. agency wrote back to them and say well neither do you so you can't post it all copyright law even in its current absurd iteration and we've talked about it before it's effectively a global labatt of me this.

copyright law from ugly monopolists and moguls like the root the former head of news corps rupert murdoch now this agency caters news agency isn't claiming to own the copyright that idea has infected their mind that we can shut down ideas and we can keep people from communicating ideas they're trying to keep tech dirt from communicating ideas but let's look at where so far an idea has not been copyrighted and it's allowed to spread and that's from tahrir square hash tag occupy wall street a shift in revolutionary tactic so this is from adbusters in on september seventeenth two thousand and eleven there encouraging at least twenty thousand people to show up on wall street occupy wall street and don't leave just like the the people in tahrir square didn't leave until their demand that mubarak step down with matt the americans are saying don't leave until obama forms a presidential commission to investigate whether or not there spend financial fraud right what we've been talking about the global insurrection against banker occupation for months and months on this show and we've been trying to encourage as much of