If the original wasn't silly enough, now they're appealing to try and get the judgement reversed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37061484
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37061484
Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-41235131
Bloody brilliant
Peta are pushing this so hard because a result for them would mean animals are capable f owning property and a whole heap of other rights, if they won this one they know it'll have some far reaching implications for their cause
IMO peta should be forced to pay the Photographer 1,000s, have to say sorry we are totally out of order for being idiots,fools and stupid. IMO peta are scum and want to carry on and ruin the Copyright owner.
Peta said it would be the first time a non-human animal has been declared the owner of property, if the lawsuit succeeded.
"The fact that copyright ownership by an animal has not been previously asserted does not mean that such rights cannot be asserted," Peta said.
Good use of their donated funds, just how many thousands would they have spent on this ?
My thoughts exactly.
I would be furious if one of the charities that I give money to behaved like this.
They should have paid for a proper lawyer, pay peanuts.........
What will this do for Wikipedia's stance on the image I wonder?
All he had to do was say that "actually I took the photo. The monkey grabbed the camera but I pushed the shutter release". Done. All credit then goes to the photographer.
I hope the togger was awarded costs. Hopefully this will set some kind of precedent, though fom what I've read it probably will not.
I believe that Winnie the Pooh should perhaps consider taking legal advice from counsel about invasion of privacy and body shaming (remember the graphic coverage of that incident where he got stuck in rabbit's burrow after eating too much honey?).
Very good!I believe he used a remote Tigger
I believe that Winnie the Pooh should perhaps consider taking legal advice from counsel about invasion of privacy and body shaming
Eeaw not to have eaten all the honey, purely his own fault as far as I'm concerned, the little piglet ..I believe he used a remote Tigger
Eeaw not to have eaten all the honey, purely his own fault as far as I'm concerned, the little piglet ..
Ok I'm done
No need to Rabbit-inThere's no need to be Roo d about him!
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It may be his camera, but the monkey took the selfie.
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But the monkey cannot hold copyright.
Kind of the crux of the whole matter.
Although the monkey can't hold the copyright as in the sense of giving or refusing permissions for the selfie to be published in magazines, books, etc, .