David Slater
| Born | November 22, 1962 |
| Hometown | Dallas, Texas, United States |
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'Selfie' monkey Naruto cannot sue for copyright, US court rules
A monkey that took a selfie using a wildlife photographer's camera cannot sue for copyright, a US court has ruled. Naruto, a seven-year-old crested macaque, snapped a photo with a toothy smile in 2011 using a camera belonging to David Slater. The British photographer wanted to have financial control of the photo - but an animal rights group filed a lawsuit in 2015 that sought to give Naruto copyright over the selfie instead.
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Court rules monkey does not own copyright to selfie as only humans can take them
Copyright infringement can only be claimed on behalf of humans, the court said.
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Monkey in 'selfie' cannot sue for copyright, U.S. court says
The dispute stemmed from a famous image that Naruto, a rare crested macaque who lives on an nature reserve, snapped using a camera that British photographer David Slater left mounted and unattended during a 2011 trip. "The panel held that the monkey lacked statutory standing because the Copyright Act does not expressly authorise animals to file copyright infringement suits," said the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco.
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Monkey in 'selfie' cannot sue for copyright, U.S. court says
The dispute stemmed from a famous image that Naruto, a rare crested macaque who lives on an nature reserve, snapped using a camera that British photographer David Slater left mounted and unattended during a 2011 trip. "The panel held that the monkey lacked statutory standing because the Copyright Act does not expressly authorize animals to file copyright infringement suits," said the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco.
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US appeals court rejects copyright suit over monkey selfies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled in a case over selfies taken by a monkey that lawsuits can't be filed claiming animals have copyrights to photos.
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Monkey that took selfie named 'Person of the Year' by PETA
An Indonesian monkey that triggered a landmark copyright case when it took a photograph of itself has been named Person of the Year by one of the world's largest animal rights groups. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it was honouring the crested black macaque – dubbed Naruto – to recognise that "he is someone, not something". The monkey took the photograph of itself in 2011 after British nature photographer David Slater set up a camera on the Indonesian island of Sul
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Could intelligent machines of the future own the rights to their own creations?
There are some strong arguments for giving machines the rights to their creations.
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Monkey selfie case finally settled – but there are many similar animal rights battles to come
Digital and animal cultures pose a profound challenge to the law’s recognition of human uniqueness.
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Is this chimpanzee a non-human person?
David Slater had entered into a legal dispute over the rights to the image, with Wikipedia and then People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) claiming it belonged to Naruto, the crested black macaque who had taken Slater’s camera and shot the picture himself. The six-year long dispute finally ended with an agreement that Slater will pay 25 per cent of the royalties of the image to conservation charities working on saving the monkey’s natural habitat. Prior to the case put forward by P
