According to U. S District Court Judge William Orrick, non-humans cannot hold copyrights
by Bob Walsh | BarkGrowlBite | January 8, 2016
The ruling came yesterday in the case of Naruto, a crested black macaque who is a resident of Indonesia, and PETA. It seems that a while back Naruto snatched a camera that was left unattended in the wild life refuge where he hangs out and took a few selfies that have some artistic interest. The PETA nut-jobs believed that Naruto should be able to personally profit from his artistry and filed the legal action in San Francisco.
The judge was of the opinion that the U S Government could, if it felt the inclination to do so, extend copyright protection to non-humans but that there was no indication in the current law that this was the intent of the law.
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