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Malaysian man 'finds' monkey selfies on lost phone
- A Malaysian man has said he discovered selfies and videos taken by monkeys on his phone after it mysteriously went missing from his home. Zackrydz Rodzi realised his smartphone had disappeared when he woke up at 11am on Saturday morning. "There was no sign of robbery. The only thing on my mind was is it some kind of sorcery," the final year computer science student from Batu Pahat in the southern state of Johor told the BBC. Mr Zackrydz said he failed to find any trace of his phone until Sunday afternoon when his father noticed a monkey outside their house. On calling his phone again he said he heard ringing from the jungle a few steps beyond the back garden, then discovered the muddied phone on some leaves beneath a palm tree.
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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
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A weird lawsuit over a monkey's selfie has been settled out of court
Attorneys for Naruto, a rare crested macaque, and for David Slater, a British photographer, announced that Slater has agreed to donate 25 percent of the photograph's future revenue to charitable groups that protect Naruto and other members of his species in Indonesia. The two sides asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which heard oral arguments in July after a lower court denied Naruto's claim, to dismiss the case.
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'Monkey selfie' case: Photographer wins two year legal fight against Peta over the image copyright
Naruto, a rare crested macaque monkey who lives in the Tangkoko Reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, picked up David Slater’s camera and snapped the now-famous photo in 2011. Peta sued “on behalf” of the monkey in 2015, seeking financial control of the photographs for the benefit of Naruto. Lawyers for Mr Slater argued his company, Wildlife Personalities Ltd, owns worldwide commercial rights to the photos, including the selfie of the monkey’s toothy grin.
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