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In Court: Can a Macaque Own the Copyright to His Selfie? (Video)

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Granting Naruto the right to his own selfie is the ethical thing to do. If you thought the monkey selfie case was over, think again.Last week, a three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard PETA's argument that Naruto, an 8-year-old male crested black macaque, should be declared the copyright owner of the internationally famous monkey selfie photographs he took using an unattended camera sometime before 2011, in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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