#monkey selfie

[peculiarist]

[mydogtypedthis]

i drew the monkey selfie bc im crazy and i need help (it's on the back of my religion homework)

[quo-usque-tandem]

Monkey Selfie by David Slater

[themesozoicsperm]

OMG 😂

[cecilbaldwin-fan]

My love is on the other side of the planet– this was all I could get last minute for Valentine’s Day 🐒💘🐒

[breadandcircusesworld]

Defendant: The picture was taken by an animal, and animals can't own copyrights...Plaintiff: People are animals, and they own copyrights... Defendant: You know what I mean. Plaintiff: Yes, I do. Judge, please let the record show that the defense believes people are robots

[quiltails]

"Rosie's Selfie" by Vicky Lord of Dunwoody, Georgia. Winner of an HonorableMention ribbon for Art Quilts. Taken from an uncopyrighted picture of a rare crested macaque, she chose bold pinks for her palette, and decided she looked like a 'Rosie.' This picture (and several others) have been part of a copyright controversy since they emerged. Naruto, a rare crested macaque monkey who lives in the Tangkoko Reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, picked up David Slater’s camera and snapped the now-famous Minnewanka at Banff National Park in Canada. The photos have been everywhere on the Internet, as several courts have maintained that since the primate took the picture, David Slater did not own the copyright. Photo taken at QuiltFest Jacksonville, 2017.

[platypusism]

PETA drops lawsuit arguing animals have right to own property

I find the fact that this photographer settled out of court a bit infuriating. 25% of the proceeds from the photo go to a monkey shelter. While that's a fine donation, it should have been voluntary and not forced by a frivolous law suit PETA clearly had no standing to make. The court should not have let it go forward. It has no basis in law.

PETA brought a law suit against a photographer on behalf of a monkey. PETA didn’t own the monkey. So it’s difficult to see who they could have standing in the case at all. For that alone it should have been dismissed out of hand.

“That case involved the intellectual property rights of an Indonesian macaque monkey named Naruto who took pictures of himself in the wild with a nature photographer’s…

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