The Great Inter Primate Propietary Selfie War

A PROFESSIONAL HUMAN photographer laid his camera down, got distracted, and a nearby monkey, notm issing a beat, picked it up, and snapped a few selfies. I mean, why not? Who doesn't? This really happened, for real. Fascinatingly, the said simian photos were of the highest quality, irresistibly cute, and of course therefore went viral. What doesn't? This has created an enormous real and potential revenue stream - but for whom? Which, of the two aforementioned primates, should and will have propriety, that oh so sacred concept of intellectual property ownership here in the United States of Avarice? We Americans are among the world's most property fanatic people. We fight over ownership of everything. Beethoven borrowed from Mozart without asking, indeed, in more civilized and less avaricious necks of the woods artists of all sorts borrow from other artists with relative impunity and much less open warfare, but, as they say, only in America. Into the courtroom the selfie intrigue went, P.E.T.A. representing the photogenic monkey, a battery of Harvard educated attorneys at law, et al, representing the interests of the human, who in reality is just another animal, a third chimpanzee. (see Jared Diamond). And although scientific research clearly indicates that the human has no inherent capabilities not inherent to all other species of primates, the human, as you might have guessed, won the law suit, probably because the judge was a human. How fair is that?! But, as Yogi used to say, it aint ovah 'til its ovah, and the Supreme court, currently inhabited by nine human primates, might eventually get a whack at it. We can only hope. The arc of justice is long, said MLK, but at great length it bends towards justice.