Monkey awarded copyright for selfie photo

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jomni

September 22, 2015, 08:34:19 PM
The nature photographer who owned the camera wanted copyright on the photo.

But PETA actually went to court and won the case for the Monkey.  In the end, this basically means everyone can reuse the photo as the monkey wouldn't complain.  Way to go PETA.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/560197dbe4b08820d91a5cbb?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000025

LongBlade

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September 23, 2015, 12:25:07 AM
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Boggit

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September 23, 2015, 06:16:32 AM
^^Lol!

@Jomni
I am surprised that the case occurred at all given that the complainant - a monkey - is neither a living human being, nor an incorporated body, therefore being incapable of having a legal personality. Failing to have a legal personality, in simple terms, means you can have no right to legal redress. Why on earth was a Federal court entertaining such a frivolous suit?

I think LB's hoot sums it up very nicely! :2funny:
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

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On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

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Bison

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September 23, 2015, 10:27:47 AM
I really really dislike PETA.  They are one of the truly annoying activist groups.

jomni

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September 25, 2015, 12:46:27 AM
Sorry misread the article. I think nobody has won anything yet. PETA just came out to sue

LongBlade

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September 25, 2015, 06:02:44 AM
No irony here...

QuoteCrested black macaques are mainly frugivorous, spending 70% of their time feeding on fruits, but they consume a huge variety of foods including seeds, leaves, flowers, pith, herbs, grass seeds, fungus, bird eggs, birds, and small vertebrates such as lizards and frogs (O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997).

source: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/crested_black_macaque
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Barthheart

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September 25, 2015, 07:17:27 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on September 25, 2015, 06:02:44 AM
No irony here...

QuoteCrested black macaques are mainly frugivorous, spending 70% of their time feeding on fruits, but they consume a huge variety of foods including seeds, leaves, flowers, pith, herbs, grass seeds, fungus, bird eggs, birds, and small vertebrates such as lizards and frogs (O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997).

source: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/crested_black_macaque

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