Timeline for Can an animal file a lawsuit on its own behalf?
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| Oct 12, 2022 at 16:15 | vote | accept | Danielle B | ||
| Oct 11, 2022 at 23:19 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @Joshua Unlikely, yes, but beyond all possibility? Brain anatomy varies significantly among domesticated dogs, and we haven't been selectively-breeding them that way for all that long; the oldest breed is something like 2500 years divergent from the rest. We have more powerful selective breeding technology now (genetic modification), there's been progress towards teaching members of existing dog breeds to use language… I wouldn't expect it in our lifetimes, but I wouldn't call it beyond all possibility that a wolf could understand a legal system within the lifetime of our countries. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 16:45 | comment | added | Joshua | I'm quite certain that the moment we can document a wolf dictating such a case of its own, the legal restriction will vanish. But it's beyond all possibility that a wolf would be intelligent enough to do so. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 9:40 | comment | added | phoog | @Trish what case established that Slater owns the copyright (assuming you don't mean "the photographer" to refer to the monkey)? As far as I can tell, the case linked in this answer is the most recent one, and it only holds that the monkey cannot own the copyright, not that the human does own it. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 17:22 | comment | added | Trish | The Monkey Selfie went to appeals court and the copyright was entirely vested to the photographer, taking away the basis for the suit, even if Naruto would have had standing to sue otherwise. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 17:15 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |