2015 – Monkey Selfie Case

PETA files a groundbreaking lawsuit asking a U.S. federal court to declare Naruto—a free-living crested macaque—the author and owner of the internationally famous “monkey selfie” photograph, which he took using a photographer’s unattended camera. The aim is to get the court to declare a nonhuman animal the owner of property (the copyright of the photograph), rather than a mere piece of property himself.