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...
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Filed Under: 9th circuit, copyright, david slater, monkey selfie, naruto, standing
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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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Oh No
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So Far, So Biologically Correct ...
(Simple way to tell the difference: monkeys have tails, apes (like chimpanzees and gorillas) don’t.)
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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.
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Don't stop me now
Then other apes (or reporters as the case may be) will make the inevitable comparisons between legal briefs and tossing one's poop.
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It keeps going, and going, and going
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great news
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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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_out_of_theblue isn't going to like this, is he?
Why was this truth censored?
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We know!
We don't care.
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I just think it's amusing that blue, Hamilton and John Smith keep banging that old "Techdirt only 'censors' posts they disagree with" drum.
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Because this stupid case getting centori would be the pinnacle of people focusing on bullshit while the nation is going to complete shit.
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Dead parrot?
Cheers, oliver
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I'll turn off the lights on my way out.
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Decades from now
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This decision is so wrong!
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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.
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It'll probably pop up at some point in the future again.
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I know what the monkey would be filing (or flinging) if he knew about this case.
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In other news
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This has GOT to be racist.
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