PETA being c**ts just for the sake of it
They've sued the guy whose camera got that monkey* selfie, so the copyright now belongs to the animal. All a bit of fun? Well, no: he's lost earnings, he's been humiliated and harassed through the courts, and the ruling has big implications for all wildlife photography.
Oh, yes, and the poor bastard had actually helped PETA in the past, and is a known animal lover.
* yes I know it's not a monkey
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Fri 25 Sep 2015, 10:32,
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doesn't make any sense
they've no chance of winning, so why do it other than to waste their own funds?
Sure if the guy got rich off the photo it would make sense to ask him to donate to the species protection, but why be a dick about it?
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HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 25 Sep 2015, 10:36,
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Even if the hairy little dude is awarded copyright,
PETA shouldn't be allowed to administer it for him, they ought to be allowed to fuck off instead.
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PETA are like Greenpeace but with more self-righteous twats.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 25 Sep 2015, 11:35,
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They don't seem to do anything risky either.
They just steal puppies off terrified crying homeless people
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The ironic thing is this was probably never a selfie
He claimed it was a selfie when the whole, retarded 'selfie' phenomena was caught on by the media, and would have seemed like an easy way to generate publicity for his work. How that's all backfired.
He was also using Nikon cameras, which have buttons all over the place. I think his were D4's so i'm personally highly dubious this primate picked one of them up and got that shot itself
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 25 Sep 2015, 10:40,
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Just when it seemed safe to leave a troop of monkeys for an infinite amount of time
in a room with pianos to come up with Happy Birthday
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 25 Sep 2015, 11:25,
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