Monkey who took grinning 'selfie' should own copyright: U.S. lawsuit
![This 2011 photo provided by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows a selfie taken by a macaque monkey on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi with a camera that was positioned by British nature photographer David Slater. The photo is part of a court exhibit in a lawsuit filed by PETA in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, which says that the monkey, and not Slater, should be declared the copyright owner of the photos. Slater has argued that, as the “intellect behind the photos,” he is the copyright owner since he set up the camera so that such a photo could be produced if a monkey approached it a pressed the button.]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"27","h":"37","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAeG32d.img?h=374&w=270&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=987&y=1155"}})
The animal rights group argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that a macaque monkey who snapped a well-known 'selfie' should be the photo's owner.
A rare crested macaque monkey who snapped a well-known, grinning "selfie" should be declared the photo's owner and receive damages for copyright infringement after it was used in a wildlife book, animal rights activists argued in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
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