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(CNN)The case of the world's most litigious selfie has come to a close.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and photographer David Slater have reached a settlement in a dispute over who owns the rights to a selfie of a monkey.
The photograph was taken in 2011 by a 7-year-old crested macaque named Naruto.
Naruto took Slater's camera while he was on assignment in Indonesia and snapped a photograph of himself with it, court documents say.The animal rights organization had argued that by republishing the photo Naturo's rights were being infringed.
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Under the agreement, Slater will donate 25% of any future revenue derived from using or selling the monkey selfie to charities that protect the crested macaques' habitat in Indonesia, according to a joint statement published on PETA's website.
"PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for nonhuman animals, a goal that they both support, and they will continue their respective work to achieve this goal,"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/asia/monkey-selfie-settlement/index.html
All in all this is probably a pretty good result in terms of the development of animal rights law - at least for macaques.
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