(c) The Los Cedros cloud forest

" '[This song] wasn’t written within the forest, it was written with the forest,' said Macfarlane. 'This was absolutely and inextricably an act of co-authorship with the set of processes and relations and beings that that forest and its rivers comprise. We were briefly part of that ongoing being of the forest, and we couldn’t have written it without the forest. The forest wrote it with us.'” #biodiversity #COP16 #LosCedros #personhood

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/25/legal-bid-for-ecuador-forest-to-be-recognised-as-song-co-creator

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 Guardian
This initiative is sponsored by the More Than Human Life (MOTH) Project, which I posted about yesterday. Very cool.