{"id":712,"date":"2018-06-05T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/?p=712"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:20:52","slug":"monkey-see-monkey-redo-marvelous-monkey-naruto-v-david-slater-copyright-case-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2018\/06\/05\/monkey-see-monkey-redo-marvelous-monkey-naruto-v-david-slater-copyright-case-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey See Monkey Redo:  The marvelous monkey copyright case is back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-768x1063.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-36x50.jpg 36w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large-108x150.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monkey selfie, now affirmed to be in the public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>It&#8217;s the bizarre case that bizarrely won&#8217;t die.<\/p>\n<p>When a 9th Circuit panel <a href=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2018\/04\/25\/the-marvelous-monkey-copyright-case-naruto-v-slater\/\">ruled<\/a> in April of this year that David Slater was insulated from Naruto&#8217;s copyright infringement lawsuit because Naruto is a monkey (yes, this is true), you might have thought the case was over.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you might have thought it was over after the lower court ruled against the monkey.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, you would have been forgiven for expressing surprise that the case ever made it as far as trial.<\/p>\n<p>But after nearly four years of litigation, and two near-death experiences, <i>Naruto et al v. David Slater<\/i> refuses to die.  As the <i>ABA Journal<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/Monkey_selfie_case_may_hang_around_in_9th_Circuit\" class=\"nr\">explains<\/a>, one of the judges has asked for a rare <i>en banc<\/i> hearing &#8212; that is, a hearing before the entire court.<\/p>\n<p>Such a hearing could set aside the panel&#8217;s April decision.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides &#8212; Mr. David Slater, a (human) photographer, and Naruto, a Crested Macaque assisted in court by PETA &#8212; were given 21 days to file briefs.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s not just cats that have nine lives.<\/p>\n<p>[Update on <b>August 31, 2018:<\/b>  The court declined to re-hear the case <i>en banc,<\/i> so the case is once again dead.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought the bizarre copyright case of a monkey suing a (human) photographer was settled when an appeals court settled it in April.  But, astonishingly, it&#8217;s back, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[44,45,43,40,115,39],"section":[],"destination":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photography","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-law","tag-david-john-slater","tag-naruto","tag-naruto-et-al-v-david-slater","tag-peta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}