Bizarre! US judge declines monkey's right on his own selfie

New York: The final judgement on the wondrous selfie of a macaque monkey Naruto is out. A petition was filed in a US federal court by Peta to declare Naruto the author and owner of the globally known monkey photographs that he took himself. In an earlier statement, PETA said: "The US Copyright Act grants copyright ownership of a 'selfie' to the 'author' of the photograph, and there is nothing in the law limiting such ownership on the basis of species”. “Naruto has been accustomed to cameras throughout his life, saw himself in the reflection of the lens, made the connection between pressing the shutter and the change in his reflection, and posed for the pictures he took,” PETA said in a statement. PETA had filed the lawsuit against photographer David J. Slater and his company, Wildlife Personalities Ltd., which both claim copyright ownership of the photos that the black macaque named Naruto indisputably took.