Matthew Rimmer<p>The writer and poet Robert Macfarlane argues that copyright laws should protect nature <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/17/rob-macfarlane-sometimes-i-felt-as-if-the-river-was-writing-me" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/may/17/rob-macfarlane-sometimes-i-felt-as-if-the-river-was-writing-me</span></a><br>"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]." <a href="https://aus.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/authorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authorship</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a></p>