Exploring Legal Issues Around Animal Rights and Copyright

Can habeas corpus be used to challenge the detention of Happy the Elephant? Can Naruto the Monkey claim copyright authorship of a selfie he took while playing with a photographer’s camera?
In the latest installment of “The Curious Lawyer” series, Peter Afrasiabi answers these and other interesting questions that surround the captivity, transportation, use and care of all manner of wild, domesticated and livestock animals under federal and state law.

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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.