Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
PETA Sues Over Monkey Selfies
Posted
January 8, 2016
Views
100,941
Likes
1,650
Comments
553
Engagement
2.18%
January 8, 2016
100,941
1,650
553
2.18%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
3:18Now PlayingA judge ruled that a monkey does not own the rights to photos he shot of himself. PETA sued the photographer who allowed a macaque monkey to take selfies, because he is profiting from those photos, but the judge ruled in the photographer’s favor. Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Has PETA gone too far? Let us know in the comments below.
Read more here
“A US judge has ruled that a macaque monkey who snapped grinning selfies that went viral last year online does not own the copyright to the photographs.
Activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals brought the case in San Francisco on behalf of Indonesian simian Naruto, who shot to fame last year after a photographer published pictures taken by the monkey with his camera.”
***
Get The Young Turks Mobile App Today!
Download the iOS version here
Download the Android version here
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
