Ninth Circuit Stops Monkeying Around And Denies En Banc Review Of The Monkey Selfie Case
from the it-ain't-over-till-its-over dept
Whatever will we do without the Monkey Selfie case rearing its not-actually-copyrighted head every few months? We might finally get to find out, now that the Ninth Circuit has declined to rehear the appeal en banc. This denial now makes clear that monkeys lack standing to sue for copyright, at least within the Ninth Circuit. Someday (hopefully not soon) we may find out what other Circuits have to say about primate copyrights, but for now we can finally be confident that they lack standing to sue over them here.
Provided that no cert petition is granted, of course. And given that this is a case that has thus far steadfastly refused to end, it is way too soon to be confident that this is truly the last we’ve heard from Naruto or any of his alleged next friends. We should at least know whether a cert petition’s been filed in about three months or so, though (see Rule 13), so stay tuned…
Filed Under: 9th circuit, copyright, david slater, monkey selfie, naruto, standing
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Comments on “Ninth Circuit Stops Monkeying Around And Denies En Banc Review Of The Monkey Selfie Case”
Geez, this case is taking as long as the monkey’s namesake anime—and with a lot more filler, to boot. Who writes this crap?
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It could be worse, they could have named him Goku.
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Or Luffy.
Oh No
Oh no, now the monkeys have no reason to take pictures. Why, Oh Why!
So Far, So Biologically Correct ...
… but not doubt somebody will try to confuse the issue by bringing apes into it …
(Simple way to tell the difference: monkeys have tails, apes (like chimpanzees and gorillas) don’t.)
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But!
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails,
They were bitten off by whales,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga.
Don't stop me now
The Supreme Court really needs to hear this. An overly educated ape (or lawyer as the case may be) needs to stand in front of the highest court in the US and explain how a less educated monkey took a picture with a camera, and then explain how it was a creative expression of the plaintiff.
Then other apes (or reporters as the case may be) will make the inevitable comparisons between legal briefs and tossing one’s poop.
Energizer needs to replace their rabbit with a macaque monkey…
It keeps going, and going, and going
great news
Now Naruto is free to pursue his new career with monkii bars.
What an awful court decision. Now the monkeys will have no incentive to buy cameras and pursue a career in photography.
Look. Just look at the sales of professional cameras in the last three years. Sales are falling off a cliff since this decision.
The monkey haters will not be happy until both Canon and Nikon are bankrupt. What a travesty of justice.
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With no judgement money and no royalties, how will the monkey’s great-grand-descendents be able to be financially secure?
out_of_the_blue isn’t going to like this, is he?
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_out_of_theblue isn’t going to like this, is he?
Why was this truth censored?
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Because your constant troll-baiting is a) old, and b) not relevant.
We know!
We don’t care.
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Oh, I didn’t make the original post.
I just think it’s amusing that blue, Hamilton and John Smith keep banging that old “Techdirt only ‘censors’ posts they disagree with” drum.
SCOTUS SCOTUS SCOTUS!!!!!!
Because this stupid case getting centori would be the pinnacle of people focusing on bullshit while the nation is going to complete shit.
Dead parrot?
This case needs to seize to be, to kick its bucket, to push up the daisies, to be an ex-case!
Cheers, oliver
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
I, for one, welcome our monkey overlords.
I’ll turn off the lights on my way out.
Decades from now
This will be recognized as the cause that drove the apes to overthrow human civilization to form a new planet.
This decision is so wrong!
If primates can enforce copyright (see: RIAA / MPAA) then why can’t they own copyrights?
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Oiy, that was unfair and uncalled for, comparing your average monkey to that lot. They monkeys have already got it bad enough without being lumped in with them.
Planet of the Apes: zombie apepocalypse
It’ll probably pop up at some point in the future again.
I know what the monkey would be filing (or flinging) if he knew about this case.
I’m surprised the case has potentially died before the monkey.
In other news
Environmentalists lobby for ferns to be granted copyright for their fractals
The number of monkey jokes in the comments on this article is just bananas.
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But of course. Making puns has its appeel.
This has GOT to be racist.
If it was Bigfoot, would there be standing?