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Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by BarryMilo »

joshspankit wrote: post #130
BarryMilo wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also don't own the copyright for pictures randomly generated by computers, presumably this applies to chicken randomization as well.

-randomly You don’t own the copyright for any picture generated by a computer, whether random or intentional

Good point, if I believe the other commenter, the image only needs to be varied, randomization is only one way to achieve this.

That said, chicken can't own copyright, and they are the author, therefore no one owns the copyright.

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by imron »

dylan604 wrote: post #121
switchstance wrote: post #39

Did the chickens sign releases authorizing the use of their photos?

If the chickens are going to be in public, there is no expectation of privacy. I'd agree if the chickens were in their coop, and they were shooting a long lens through the windows we might be violating some privacy. However, running about in public like this is totally fine without releases

They are not running around in public.

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by MisterMower »

gameshot911 wrote: post #152
sph wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. Chicken have been seen as food for the majority of our existence on this planet, not pets. That now we see them as pet as well talks about the complexity and capacity for contradiction and paradoxes of our culture and our minds. I accept that biologically I thrive on chicken meat yet I am intellectually capable of thinking chicken are very lovely animals. Humans are walking contradictions. As much as many…

>I accept that biologically I thrive on chicken meat yet I am intellectually capable of thinking chicken are very lovely animals. But today you have the capacity to biologically thrive equally as well without needing to eat chick en meat, so "lovely beings" are being slaughtered for no more than a few moments of sensory pleasure. A terrible price for such a lowly payoff.

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Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by marcosdumay »

calibas wrote: post #95

Some interesting legality here, if these photos are really "taken by chickens" then they can't be copyrighted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... However, if this counts as being "taken by chickens" then it also implies that when a burglar triggers a motion-activated camera, the burglar owns the rights to the image.

If one sets-up the devices to that chickens or a burglar activate them, that one still owns the pictures, even though the chickens technically took them.

But yeah, the the chickens or a burglar steals the cameras and activate them by their own programing, overriding whatever setting they had before, the camera owner won't own the copyright on the photos anymore.

In other words, it's not that easy to lose the copyrights. The burglar just activating the motion-trigger isn't enough.

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by popcube »

joshspankit wrote: post #130
BarryMilo wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also don't own the copyright for pictures randomly generated by computers, presumably this applies to chicken randomization as well.

-randomly You don’t own the copyright for any picture generated by a computer, whether random or intentional

but artists use computer for their artwork in a long time?

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by dylan604 »

imron wrote: post #162
dylan604 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the chickens are going to be in public, there is no expectation of privacy. I'd agree if the chickens were in their coop, and they were shooting a long lens through the windows we might be violating some privacy. However, running about in public like this is totally fine without releases

They are not running around in public.

some people just cannot read humor.

is there a textual equivalent of a laugh track that can be included?

/s ~= sarcasm

/j ~= joke???

i guess some people just never read douglas adams, or these are the same folks that "tried" to read adams and "just didn't get it"

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by igetspam »

harry8 wrote: post #142
LesZedCB wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

indeed, the line between "pet" and "food" is disturbing in both where it's drawn, and it's fundamental relativism.

I don't think OP is really talking about the line between pet and food. There's something else going on here. Think more about cows. Nice creatures. Live in the fields under the sun and that isn't horrific. We eat them. Maybe you had a pet cow? Ok that's fine. There's your pet/food line issue. Most omnivorous humans believe it is possible to treat them with respect in their lives and eat them. Others disagree, of cou…

Yeah... it's hard to decide what's worse, the crammed cages of filth or tossing the rooster chicks into a chipper. Both are terrible fates. We're pretty awful creatures sometimes.

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by totetsu »

jahlove wrote: post #2

> Are these chicken selfies? > Yes. The chickens are using an input device (the motion sensor) to invoke a computer function (the capture method on the Pi), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared. > This is identical to a human using an input device (tapping a button) to invoke a computer function (the post method on Instagram), which invokes a series of events th…

Most of human selfie SNS photography could be argued to be as automatic and undeliberate as these chicken photos.

Re: Photos of chickens, taken by chickens

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Post by Perenti »

0daystock wrote: post #73

Chickens are beautiful creatures worthy of at the least the respect we give to household pets. The unimaginable horror we put billions of them through on an ongoing basis, while dissonantly admiring their charm and brilliance, is a sobering realization.

I grew up on an organic, free-range poultry farm in the 70s. The current definition of "free range" supports up to 100 full grown birds per m^2. The treatment of battery hens and factory farmed poultry is an obscenity, in my opinion.
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