Khaleej Times

The monkey sparks a US copyright case

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> The Indonesian monkey shot to fame after it snapped a grinning selfie and sparked a landmark US copyright case

> The PETA said it was honouring Naruto to recognise that “he is someone, not something”.

> In 2011, the monkey pressed the shutter button while staring down the lens of a camera set up by British photograph­er David Slater on the island of Sulawesi.

> Naruto’s historic selfie challenged the idea of who is a person and who is not.

> The court case set off an internatio­nal debate about personhood for animals

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