'Monkey Selfie' Lawsuit Ends With Settlement Between PETA, Photographer
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Back in 2011, Naruto was just an anonymous macaque in the jungles of Indonesia. On one particular day, however, the photogenic primate happened upon a wildlife photographer's camera and snapped a "monkey selfie."
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Whether the act was intentional or a quite-too-literal instance of monkeying around, only the grinning primate knows for certain. But it raised a complicated question: Who owns the images Naruto took, the monkey or the man?
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On Monday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a settlement with photographer David Slater, ending a lawsuit it filed on Naruto's behalf. Under the deal, Slater agreed to donate 25 percent of future revenue from the photos to groups that protect crested macaques and their habitat in Indonesia. Both sides also asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "to dismiss the case and throw out a lower court decision that said animals cannot own copyrights,"
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PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for nonhuman animals
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Link ---> https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-monkey-selfie
Just thinking out loud here ..... If a Judge will rule on behalf of an animal getting it's picture taken "Animal Rights" , only a matter of time before PETA files future lawsuits for pictures taken with Trail Cameras or by other photographers. Now all of a sudden, birds, deer, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and banana slugs have legal rights too.
We live in a fricked up Liberal-azz world
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Back in 2011, Naruto was just an anonymous macaque in the jungles of Indonesia. On one particular day, however, the photogenic primate happened upon a wildlife photographer's camera and snapped a "monkey selfie."
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Whether the act was intentional or a quite-too-literal instance of monkeying around, only the grinning primate knows for certain. But it raised a complicated question: Who owns the images Naruto took, the monkey or the man?
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On Monday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a settlement with photographer David Slater, ending a lawsuit it filed on Naruto's behalf. Under the deal, Slater agreed to donate 25 percent of future revenue from the photos to groups that protect crested macaques and their habitat in Indonesia. Both sides also asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "to dismiss the case and throw out a lower court decision that said animals cannot own copyrights,"
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PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for nonhuman animals
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Link ---> https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-monkey-selfie
Just thinking out loud here ..... If a Judge will rule on behalf of an animal getting it's picture taken "Animal Rights" , only a matter of time before PETA files future lawsuits for pictures taken with Trail Cameras or by other photographers. Now all of a sudden, birds, deer, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and banana slugs have legal rights too.
We live in a fricked up Liberal-azz world
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