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Primates and Processors: Authorship of Non-Human Authors from Monkey Selfies to Generative AI

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Many of us remember the case of Naruto, a crested macaque who, perhaps accidentally, took a selfie using a camera placed in the field by a wildlife photographer. If we were interested in copyright law, this case naturally...more

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Copyrights and Photographs

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Copyrights are a bundle of legal rights belonging to the owner of an original work of authorship. Federal statutes provide that copyright protection subsists in “original works of authorship” that are fixed in any tangible...more

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Monkeying with Copyrights: Who Owns the Monkey Selfies? A Lesson in Copyright Ownership

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on behalf of a crested macaque monkey, who famously snapped a smiling selfie of himself using wildlife photographer David...more

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