A San Francisco court said that while the protection of law could be extended to animals,there was no indication that it was in the Copyright Act A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-noted selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos. U.
S. district Judge William Orrick said in a tentative opinion Wednesday that while Congress and the president can extend the protection of law to animals as well as humans, there is no indication that they did so in the Copyright Act. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com