monkeys those not own a copyright to snap a picture.

Naruto, a crested macaque in Indonesia, has no rights to the (adorable) selfies he took on a nature photographer's camera, according to the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court upheld a lower court's previous ruling, which said, basically, that animals can't file copyright infringement suits. In 2011, Naruto, then 7 years old, snapped several photos of himself with a camera belonging to photographer David John Slater. Slater included Naruto's photos in a book he published.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sued Slater and self-publishing company Blurb on Naruto's behalf in 2015. The group argued that publishing and selling the photographs that the monkey took infringed on Naruto's rights under the Copyright Act. The defendants argued that, as a monkey, Naruto couldn't own a copyright.

The dispute over the photo's ownership came when it was posted on Wikipedia's free-to-use website. Slater asked that it be taken down. Wikipedia argued the photo is uncopyrightable because an animal took it. The image and the legal case attracted international attention, raising complex legal questions about copyright and art when it comes to animals.