• PETA is suing to have Naruto, a monkey, declared the copyright owner of a famous selfie photograph taken in 2011, rather than the owner of the camera, David Slater.
• Back in 2011, Naruto took the photo after David left the camera in an Indonesian rain forest.
• David then lost a case against Wikimedia, who hosted the photo, because the image was taken by a monkey and therefore could not be copyrighted.
• PETA wants to have the proceeds from David’s book Wildlife Personalities donated to Naruto and other macaque monkeys (although a portion of each sale is already donated to their conservation).
• Although it’s claimed that only a human can register copyrights for intellectual property, PETA says the US Copyright Office grants copyright to the being who took the photo, with no limit on species. 

Read more:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/09/thanks-to-peta-the-monkey-selfie-controversy-will-never-end/

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/09/22/PETA-sues-to-give-monkey-ownership-of-selfie/2911442946614/?spt=sec&or=on

http://news.yahoo.com/peta-sues-monkey-copyright-selfie-photos-150305448.html

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