Also PETA got involved, because they've never seen an animal-centric story they couldn't weasel themselves into.
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Did they try to euthanize the monkey?
They tried to drag them into the horrors of the copyright world
I used to stream MHFU like ten years ago and the best comment I ever got was "YO, Peta should hire this man."
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite?
Nah, Momma Hoss: Food Universe on the GBA.
I hate that I literally googled that…
Lol, of course they wanted the proceeds. Peta and shameless whoring, name a more iconic duo.
Added relevant quote
This is actually a really famous and interesting copyright case that established some important bounds of copyright. How much of an artist's intent is necessary to claim copyright? Can an artist set up a situation in which some creative product is produced?
There is actually a lot of animal photography that is dependent on the animal itself to trigger the camera, such as trail photos or even those cute photos of squirrels interacting with dollhouse furniture like tiny little humans. There is a lot of meticulous planning, experimentation, and patience that goes into "spontaneous" photographs.
The headline definitely makes it sound dumb, but this does seem like an interesting argument regardless of which side you fall on.
Good points.
Suing Wiki ain’t chill but I do feel for somebody who purposely arranged to get a monkey to hold a camera - must’ve taken forever
This also set a huge precedent for legal cases around AI image generation, didn't it? Since that also falls under "works not created by a human" and are therefore not copyrightable. We could have been dealing with a much bleaker AI art law situation than we have today because of this funny monkey photo case.
Most sane PETA activism.
as a photographer this feels weird, there's much more to photography than just pressing the button
There’s a great episode of Hello Internet where they talk about this.
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