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Ars Technica: A federal judge on Wednesday said that a monkey that swiped a British nature photographer's camera during an Indonesian jungle shoot and snapped selfies cannot own the intellectual property rights to those handful of pictures.
PETA has been making a lot of people furry-ous recently, and fur good reason. Their actions have started to take the form of money-grubbing, as opposed to taking the form of seeking justice for the crimes against animals that are committed across the world each day. Reading this article, it seems almost like parody, claiming that a monkey is sue-ing a man - via PETA, mind you - for intellectual property rights to funny selfies he took that went viral. First off, a monkey has no concept of Intellectual Property, human money, or how the law system works. Claiming that they are acting on the behalf of the monkey, PETA themselves become the ape, trying to beat it's chest and get more money from a guy who happened to end up with a cute photo on his phone from a monkey. PETA claims, ultimately, that should the lawsuit (which they are continuing to amend, therefore blowing tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, airfare, and mini bar charges) make it through the Appellate courts of Congress, and the monkey is given the money it deserves, that PETA would donate it back to Naruto and all other animals in need of better habitats, when the truth is that money will go towards more euthanizations for the animals they "can't help". PETA, who's the real monkey here?
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PETA has been making a lot of people furry-ous recently, and fur good reason. Their actions have started to take the form of money-grubbing, as opposed to taking the form of seeking justice for the crimes against animals that are committed across the world each day. Reading this article, it seems almost like parody, claiming that a monkey is sue-ing a man - via PETA, mind you - for intellectual property rights to funny selfies he took that went viral. First off, a monkey has no concept of Intellectual Property, human money, or how the law system works. Claiming that they are acting on the behalf of the monkey, PETA themselves become the ape, trying to beat it's chest and get more money from a guy who happened to end up with a cute photo on his phone from a monkey. PETA claims, ultimately, that should the lawsuit (which they are continuing to amend, therefore blowing tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, airfare, and mini bar charges) make it through the Appellate courts of Congress, and the monkey is given the money it deserves, that PETA would donate it back to Naruto and all other animals in need of better habitats, when the truth is that money will go towards more euthanizations for the animals they "can't help". PETA, who's the real monkey here?
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