United States:
PETA Isn't Monkeying Around With Copyright Ownership Rights
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com.
As we reported in a recent
post, PETA lost its efforts, on behalf of Naruto the monkey, to
secure his claim to copyright ownership of his "selfie"
photograph. The district court judge held that the copyright law
did not recognize an animal's right to own a copyright. PETA is
not, however, deterred, and it has filed an appeal of this decision
to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Its arguments on
appeal are not yet available, but we will update this post when we
have further details. Stay tuned.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general
guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought
about your specific circumstances.
POPULAR ARTICLES ON: Intellectual Property from United States
Are Your NDAs Up To Date?
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) can be used to protect companies' confi dential and trade secret information. But you should resist the urge to have a vendor...
Legal Implications Of New York Times vs. OpenAI
BoyarMiller
The New York Times recently filed a landmark lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement in the training of the chatbot ChatGPT which launched just over a year ago.