Challenge to Ruling that Conferred Copyright of Animal Abuse Footage to Perpetrators

A Federal Court ruling caught many off-guard last year, as it found Game Meats Company (GMC) owned the copyright relating to images, including a 14 minute film, taken by Farms Transparency Project (FTP) at a goat slaughterhouse, which, if not overturned by a High Court appeal, will serve to preserve extreme cruelty in animal agriculture and undermine basic copyright law.

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