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Published at 2016-01-07 22:25:49

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WASHINGTON — Monkeys can do a lot of things. Communicate. fabricate (to make up, invent) tools. Fling poo. One thing they can’t do,according to a judge in San Francisco? Claim copyright over selfies. In a case that one legal reform organization skewered as the most ridiculous lawsuit of 2015, U.
S. Dist
rict Judge William Orrick has offered a provisional opinion that Naruto the macaque cannot claim copyright over a selfie he snapped in 2011. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a lawsuit […]

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