Re: Too Late Now
" And where does the US Copyright Office get the authority to deny a hard-working simian his rights to his artistic creation? Specist bastards! Someone get that monkey a lawyer!"
Errrrrm, it didn't! Surely their decision was pro-monkey, by not letting the human steal his work!
From TFA:
The Office said in its latest copyright law compendium (PDF) that images taken by animals, including the 2011 primate self-shot, could not be registered for copyright by a human.