Appeal filed with the Indonesian monkey and her selfie
The initiators of the proceedings are trying to prove the right of monkeys to their own selfie
Macaque, taking a selfie, obviously knew that it would not be simple and easy
The story of the macaque, who stole the camera from the photographer and made "bash", will not end. Only in January of this year, the court seemed to have finally and irrevocably denied the monkey copyright to his selfies. But now the organization People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken on the matter again. Its representatives decided to stand up for the rights of monkeys and spoke in the interests of the animal in court.
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The story itself began in 2011, when the photographer David Slater, specializing in wildlife, decided to photograph a rare species of monkeys from Indonesia. The photographer began to install the equipment, but one of the monkeys decided to help the man. Without thinking, the animal stole the camera, and began to press the shutter button again and again. Among the hundreds of photographs obtained there are almost perfect selfies of the animal. The photo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, after which the photographer asked to delete this photo, stating its rights to it.
Wikimedia representatives (a non-profit organization that serves the work of a dozen wiki projects, including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons) refused to delete the photo, indicating that the rights to the selfie photo do not belong to the photographer. He began to challenge such an opinion, arguing that he had lost thousands of dollars in "lost profits" as deductions. The photographer even informed the Air Force that the monkey was his assistant. After detailed consideration of the case, the Copyright Bureau made the following decision : “Works made by nature, animals or plants” cannot be protected by copyright.
But according to the previous law, PETA decided to collect from the photographer and the Blurb platform, where the photographer unloaded monkey photos for copyright infringement. According to representatives of this organization, a monkey can really be the owner of the right to their own selfie, so no one else can use the pictures without her, a monkey, permission. Now the organization, as mentioned above, has filed an appeal to a higher authority.
The appeal will be considered by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of the United States . The meeting on this case will take place within a month, and after that it will be clear whether the case will get further.
Macaque, taking a selfie, obviously knew that it would not be simple and easy
The story of the macaque, who stole the camera from the photographer and made "bash", will not end. Only in January of this year, the court seemed to have finally and irrevocably denied the monkey copyright to his selfies. But now the organization People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken on the matter again. Its representatives decided to stand up for the rights of monkeys and spoke in the interests of the animal in court.
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The story itself began in 2011, when the photographer David Slater, specializing in wildlife, decided to photograph a rare species of monkeys from Indonesia. The photographer began to install the equipment, but one of the monkeys decided to help the man. Without thinking, the animal stole the camera, and began to press the shutter button again and again. Among the hundreds of photographs obtained there are almost perfect selfies of the animal. The photo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, after which the photographer asked to delete this photo, stating its rights to it.
Wikimedia representatives (a non-profit organization that serves the work of a dozen wiki projects, including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons) refused to delete the photo, indicating that the rights to the selfie photo do not belong to the photographer. He began to challenge such an opinion, arguing that he had lost thousands of dollars in "lost profits" as deductions. The photographer even informed the Air Force that the monkey was his assistant. After detailed consideration of the case, the Copyright Bureau made the following decision : “Works made by nature, animals or plants” cannot be protected by copyright.
But according to the previous law, PETA decided to collect from the photographer and the Blurb platform, where the photographer unloaded monkey photos for copyright infringement. According to representatives of this organization, a monkey can really be the owner of the right to their own selfie, so no one else can use the pictures without her, a monkey, permission. Now the organization, as mentioned above, has filed an appeal to a higher authority.
The appeal will be considered by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of the United States . The meeting on this case will take place within a month, and after that it will be clear whether the case will get further.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/392057/
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