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Monkey Business
Fortean Times
|Christmas 2017
Monkey selfie copyright battle ends at last
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Back in 2011 a crested black macaque monkey in Sulawesi, Indonesia, picked up an unattended camera owned by David Slater and took a selfie, which soon went viral, depriving Slater of revenue. An initial court ruling was in Slater’s favour, but in 2015 PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) appealed the decision, asserting that the monkey should get royalties, but after two years of deliberation, a court in San Francisco has dismissed the appeal, saying that copyright protection could not be applied to an animal. Lawyers for Slater argued that his company, Wildlife Personalities Ltd., owns worldwide commercial rights to the photos, includ
This story is from the Christmas 2017 edition of Fortean Times.
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