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P.E.T.A. U.S.'s LAWSUIT AGAINST U.K. PHOTOG DAVID SLATER IS AN INTERNATIONAL GERMANY , INDONESIA, U.S.  & U.K. DEFAMATION INCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN  (c) Carrie Devorah :
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P.E.T.A.'s SLATER SUIT MAKES A MONKEY OF P.E.T.A.      (c) Carrie Devorah:
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One must ask themselves why a British founded charity is suing a British citizen on America soil. As bizarre as that sounds, it is exactly what is taking place, today.

European Charity PETA is suing a Welshman David Slater on American soil.

The answer as to why a non-profit would head to the ‘new world’ to sue Selfie Monkey photographer David Slater is not rocket science. The answer is chicanery and greed and, oh, opportunistic attacks on one of the beasts PETA alleges to protect, Genus Homo Sapien, the creature that evolved from monkeys and apes that PETA is sworn to defend.

P.E.T.A. has disclosed the cruelty of how research monkeys are kept in tubes in labs (www.wikipedia.org) Slater kept no one hostage anywhere. Slater traveled to be with the monkeys in their environment, lived with them, acclimated them to him, working to intrigue the monkeys to his gear.

And then hell broke loose. Slater released his toothie chimp without a watermark on his pic, believing that ‘crap’  we all bought in to that an image is ours, no one will steal. Slater’s misfortune is our reminder that the nature of some people is to steal, the very reason laws have been on the books and in the bibles, as far back as mankind.

I really want to believe in Santa, Slater, I really want to.

PETA is known for its pop up protests, not so well known for its being in the F.B.I. archives for threats against G.M. No, the protests are well coordinated and planned but the impact some of these PETA protests have on men is, well, outstanding, intentionally, the only explanation for Legislators wearing their coats in heat to collect their sausages, vegan, of course, from PETA’s lettuce clad bikini babes slowly engorging vegan dogs between their pretty lips.

Hey, been there done that as a photog. These girls can be coached to work a lens, no different than a monkey can be coached to take a Selfie pic. The talent isn’t in the beast or, in the lettuce girls, the breast, the talent is in the patience of the photographer.

Real photogs know that taking pics is team work. And Slater’s Selfie Monkey? Team work of a jungle kind.

PETA’s UK charity statement says, “Activities

1)      Provide free humane education materials to primary and secondary school educators 2) Make available the link between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans for police, social care and prosecutors' offices 3) Conduct research regarding a wide range of animal protection issues.”

Slater’s monkey is smiling. No pain,” and as the expression describes Slater’s reality, “No Gain.”
 
PETA Foundation’s charity operates throughout England and Wales. Not quite. PETA.org’s IRS Form 990 filing confirms that PETA did not quite tell the UK Commission the truth that PETA operates ………..

PETA.org did not quite tell the I.R.S., America’s Internal Revenue Service, that PETA.org actually started in 1996. PETA.org alleges their organization started in ………….   Moreso, PETA.org.uk does not disclose on its British Charity papers that  PETA.org.uk is actually based in Norfolk Viriginia, at least, that is what is stated on the PETA whois.com disclosures (http://www.whois.com/whois/petaf.org.uk),   “Registered on: 15-Sep-2005.”  The exact text states, “Domain name:
        petaf.org.uk

    Registrant:
        The PETA Foundation

    Trading as:
        The PETA Foundation

    Registrant type:
        Unknown

    Registrant's address:
        501 Front Street
        Norfolk
        VA
        23510
        United States “


            The “rabbit trail” gets easier to follow.

Netnames, the Registry PETA registered its domain names through, is located in London.   Registrant:
        GroupNBT Ltd

    Registrant type:
        UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3709856)

    Registrant's address:
        3rd Floor Prospero House
        241 Borough High Street
        London
        London
        SE1 1GA
        United Kingdom


Group NBT Ltd, oh joy for David Slater, is located on Slater’s home turf, GroupNBT Ltd is a UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3709856). Case precedence has already been established in America that Registrants are liable for the actions taken under them by domain name holders, for example, PETA.

Group NBT’s registrar Ascio Technologies Inc. though in Denmark, looks back to London, even to Canary Wharf with a rabbit trail of ascio.com and ascio.net linking to speednames.com and netnames.com and netnames.net domains owned by Netnames Ltd.

On the US side, David can pursue Versign located in Virginia and IANA under contract from the Department of Commerce to ICANN, the private non profit that President Bill Clinton transferred the military DARPA intelligence to in 1998. ICANN is a private non profit that was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byer.

The Ascio Network was created in 1995, according to whois.com (http://www.whois.com/whois/netnames.com) three years before President Clinton privatized ICANN. Three years before would lead one to conclude that the real monkey being made a fool of have been the American, make that, global taxpayers losing privacy and livelihood, as Slater has, at a click of a key that sent his monkey viral around the world.

Now that David knows he can turn the tables on PETA, there is more to what one can do beyond defense revenge. David’s best bet is to put himself out as the poster boy for IP infringement, hard working man that even US legislators stole use of his grinning monkey for their Bill they co-authored. There are TV shows, talk opportunities even films to be made and marketing tie-ins, if Slater was a businessman not just a patient photographer great with grinning beasts. 

Slater should set his talking points right to make the message he wants to resonate (1) how the internet stole his income (2) how viral defamation and online bullying can travel within seconds and (3) how little lawyers know about IP theft . Slater can also offer props on how lawyers are willing to gouge his misfortune offering assistance at hundreds of dollars an hour, the reality for legislators to pick up on after the con of misleading creatives to believe that paying to register a copyright gets the payer something. Poorer, for sure. Anything more than that, well not if a lawyer wont take the case. For sure a registered  copyright doesn’t act as a speedbump the Registered Author can point to as proof they own the mark, which should be a speedbump for PETAS and such to back down from frivolous suits.

Slater’s PETA lesson may be the world’s PETA gain. This move puts PETA under the review radar of no less than two charitable commission, the U.S. and Canada.

My advice to David Slater to consider is get this monkey off your back. Donate the images to a local zoo of your choice attached to a Royal or a Parliamentarian making sure they understand you are only transferring rights to the image, that you are retaining rights to your name, your publicity, your story, which cannot be used on anything to promote the pics without violating your name and brand. Make sure you include in the agreement that you retain the right to use your own pics without threat of litigation.

Slater can’t register SELFIEMONKEY.com.  Someone already did without the balls to disclose who they are. That said Slater can register DavidSlatersselfiemonkey.com  Two can play the same TLD game. Slater can register SELFIEMONKEY.sucks or SELFIEMONKEY.sex or SELFIEMONKEY.COM.IS.AN.IMAGE.STOLEN.FROM.DAVID.SLATER

Dumb rabbit trail bunny. Nothing on the internet is hidden, or for very long…

No sense of keeping an image that is draining time and interest in creating. After the Copyright to the images is transferred to the charity of Slater’s choice, get your backside out in to the concrete jungle to get an agent who will land Slater book deals, endorsement deals, movie deal and the rest.

Good luck Slater. Count your blessings on the lawyers that turned you down, an opportunity in disguise. Maybe an angel will be rewarded, in the least with a signed print set and book and of course public mention of thank you’s.

Make sure you find that much quoted alleged statement attributed to the Registrar Of Copyright ruling they claim the monkey owns the pic. See, the way it works in America is that Legislators make the laws that regulatory agencies put in to play. If Congress did not right that law, then someone over at the RoC has a big problem to address. Hmmm, Office of Government Reform or even the GAO would those ones to connect to. Nothing like an international situation to rev the cockles up. Been a while since the last one, methinks that was 1776….

All is not lost. In a world of opportunists, someone actually did because it was the right thing to do. Hey and if there is a presentation to the zoo, an official transfer ceremony of the monkey images to the zoo, count me in, David, count me in…..


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AMERICAN LEGISLATORS JOIN TOGETHER AT A CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING USING "SELFIE MONKEY" WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION (c) Carrie Devorah :
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      Theft of Photographers and Artists works has become too common by staffers and legislators, without a thought to the loss of income to the Content creator. The most eggregious example took place a few months back, on Capitol Hill, when legislators, both sides of the aisle, came together for their Bill on Copyrights, ironically, at an event that used the globally stolen SELFIE MONKEY a nature photographer took months to set up, teaching the Monkey to trip the "click."     February 11, 2015, Representatives Jared Polis and Blake Farenthold gave opening remarks at a Copyright Policy briefing hosted by Public Knowledge and R Street, in the basement of Rayburn Building, on Capitol Hill.

 Farenthold (TX-27) and  Polis (CO-02) were reintroducing H.R. 862, "YODA," the You Own Devices Act.  The policy behind  YODA was to ensure that "licensing terms for essential software that allows a physical good to operate does not prevent consumers from selling, leasing, or giving away the physical good." Congressman Farenthold and Congressman Polis took questions at the R Street copyright lunch publicized as “…informational briefing on the hill explaining the basics of copyright law, and the policy challenges that arise in an age of monkey selfies, Taylor Swift, and Buzzfeed.” The event was moderated by Mike Godwin, R Streets Innovation Director, joined with Georgetown University Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet, American Library Association Copyright Counsel Jonathan Band and Public Knowledge Vice President for Legal Affairs Sherwin Sy.

    Chepstow Wales photographer David Slater was stunned to hear his Selfie Monkey was used without authorization, yet again, this time by two D.C. non-profits putting on a Capitol Hill event in support of helping legislators move a Bill forward, creating an international incident.

    Slater emailed from Wales, “it took a lot of hard work, technical know-how to set the camera up in the way I did, knowledge of primate behaviour, a sense of fun and experiment and so on.” Slater wrote, “…the image was never put on Twitter etc by me.  I hate social media!!!  The image was first stolen by Techdirt (Mike Masnick).  They lifted the image from the Daily Mail newspaper.  The Daily Mail had paid for my images and text via my agent, as so many other newspapers had done too.  Masnick and his free-rights take-first-sue-me-if-you-don't-like it friends then got to work on getting it onto Wikipedia, if only to support his own rhetoric over my images and his defense against litigation (I had demanded via my agent to take the images down).”
Slater said, “many other photographers who have employed animals to trip a device that presses a button on a camera - something we wildlife guys have been doing for 100 years now.”

    Slater continued, “People like Masnick and many websites still use all of my series of shots and then claim Fair Use.  Since when is fair Use the ruining of income for me.  Ruining the control of the images I worked so hard to get? Wikipedia are clearly into "free knowledge for all" and this obviously is an attack on Intellectual (Knowledge!) Property….”

      Slater posted his “how I got the photos story” on his website clarifying “media” got Slater’s stolen Monkey pic wrong saying just as in the UK “…the US people seem incapable of questioning "authorities" such as tabloid news…” calling newspapers “…weapons of mass distraction…”
  
    Slater’s images are all registered with the Register of Copyrights, having Image Rights protection. Slater confirms his Monkey Selfies are registered in Guernsey, something, Slater said, media fail to mention. Slater, invited to the States to participate on a panel with Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante had to decline. Slater wrote wanted to challenger Ms. Pallante, “Sadly, I cannot make it to the US for that conference, but would have loved to challenge her and her sentence about monkeys taking photos because the non-copyright language "taken" is not only not defined but seems to have been inserted without thought and as a direct attack on me.”

    Polis' congressional website says, "
For too long our antiquated copyright laws have been stifling innovation and blocking consumers from being able to access more efficient, effective, and affordable products and technology," said Congressman Polis. "YODA will bring our copyright laws into the 21st century and recognize that people can own and transfer devices without being strangled by paperwork and empty legal threats."

    Polis' website continues, “As technology advances, more and more of the devices in your home, office, and garage contain essential software that make them run,” said Congressman Farenthold.  “While this gives us great improvements like air conditioners that can be switched on or off from your phone, household lamps that you can remotely control or program, and speakers that play music as you change rooms, it also opens the door to software licenses that erode how much you own these devices and how you can dispose of them.  YODA ensures that these devices are yours and you can sell them when you wish. “
   
    Slater writes, "I wrote an email to him (Sherwin Sy) demanding he shows me the license that gives him permission to use the image.  He then wrote back to me via Public Knowledge, to publicly attempt to humiliate me as well as to promote more theft of my image."
        Polis' and Farenthold's YODA push event used Slater's photo in flyers to promote the event, individual handoutsheets distributed at events in DC, online, in various articles and of course up on the Media screen throughout the whole event, each use and type of use being an infringement of Slater's image. Compelling, isn't the macaque, teethy grin and all. Each use is an intentional infringement with a penalty of $150,000, for starters, for a registered image, as David's is, registered that is.

  
  Public Knowledge's Sherwin Sy chose to use the Internet to respond to Mr. Slater, posting an article called  "“Nobody” Can’t Hold a Copyright, Which Means Sometimes, Nobody Holds a Copyright." The broken telephoness of the Internet mistold Slater's story. No monkey stole Slater's camera. Hard work, training, placement of the image and earning the trust of the monkeys is what tripped this eventual international storm.

        CNBC picked up the story, infringing David's monkey with an image taken off Wikimedia, a source of many of the infringements.

    Sy has something very very wrong. The Registrar of Copyrights does not make laws. Congress does. 

    Under American legal concept of Respondeat Superior , one must adress the elephant in the room that Congressmen Polis and Farenthold are responsible for the use of Slater's monkey in promoting their event.

    The thieves are Wikimedia and all users without license of Slater's image. Theft of Property is theft. Slater is a resident of the United Kingdom, a signator to the Berne Convention. The Berne says someone owns their creation without even having to make their mark on it, relying on the concept of "thou shalt not steal" a toss back to Man and Integrity.

    This is an international problem. Adrian Leppard, QPM is a senior British police officer and the current Commissioner of the City of London Police is made notice of this issue making a monkey out of politicos. Lepard had appeared in Crystal City Virginia almost two years ago to accept an award from ICE for being part of the global team talking raging Intellectual Property theft, albeit grey market airbags and the like. ICE's headquarters is a veritable Walmart when one walks in the door displaying stolen goods like celebrity licensed product and the such. Missing are examples of the most stolen items on the internet, Artists and Photographers images. The lobbying for ARTS content is horrid to say the least with prominent players being part of that purloining process rather than screaming "Stop, go no further." Stop the ARTs and Photography thefts.


    Ironically, R Street and Public Knowledge are non-profits registered with the IRS, Internal Revenue Service. The SELFIE MONKEY has been a 'non-profit- for photographer Slater, losing income from his stolen photo by parties citing "Fair Use." US Copyright Code, Title 17, requires Content Users to seek permission from Content owner. Slater is still waiting.

Calls made to the Legislators office after the event went unanswered.


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AMERICAN LEGISLATORS COMPLICIT INFRINGING SELFIE MONKEY
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Legislators, and Parliamentarians, are supposed to set the example of protecting constituents, respecting Trade Agreements and embodying the laws they create then hold constituents as examples to in the face of law enforcement coordinating fighting IP.

US Congressmen Farenthold (R) and Polis (D) participated in a Think Tank event on Rayburn building, an event promoting the Legislators bi-partisan YODA bill. The host Think Tank used the infamous Selfie Monkey on leaflets and on the Think Tank website alleging "Fair Use."

Fair Use declarations, without the Content Creators approval, have become a License To Steal. There is something bi-polar when Legislators who write the Law ignore it being violated.

Slater worked hard to condition the Monkees to accept him even handle his photographic gear. Selfie Monkee was not an accident. Selfie Monkee was paramount professionalism on the part of the photographer. And then... the Internet stole David's Commerce, David's IP and, when it comes to an Content Creator being stolen from, the Internet stole the wind out of David's commercials sails, pardon the pun.

While Wiki, this or that, argue the viral sharing of David's image is Fair Use, then, conversely, the Click bait, auction profits, advertising plus funds, and, oh yes, the salaries of all parties involved in this International Theft, yes, even funds raised by non-profits soliciting donations and support, all this, yes, a piece of it goes to David, after all, isnt all fair in love, war and online Theft.

This is an international incident Legislators, and hosting think tank are accountable to. Writing laws does not put one above the law.

David Slater wrote he had no knowledge of his Selfie Monkey shot being used, that it was used on the Internet, distributed on leaflet handouts and given to staffers on the Hill.

Legislators, globally, failing to dot the "i" and cross the "t" on IP used at events they Keynote at, Panel at, or lend their name to are no different than those who are being found guilty in Mega Upload take downs, bookings and convictions. Aiding and abetting is aiding and abetting. Having a Legislator or Parliamentarian on one's Resume, business card or lapel, is not a license to steal nor is it a license to say "I didnt know."

Cough. That is the Parliamentarians job, to know, after all they write the Rules.

A fair start, here and now, is for Congress to invite David Slater to testify on Capitol Hill, for Legislators to hear, first hand, from the Monkey Man him 'selfie' how it feels to get robbed, moreso, when 'aiders' and 'abettors' to the crime are men who write the law. Every staffer in the room knows better to ask the question of the event hosts "DO YOU HAVE PERMISSION FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER TO USE THEIR PHOTO?" They did not ask that question. Nor did the GC from the House Judiciary call the host presenters out on the actuality of the legality of IP Fair Use v Theft. Two hands raised, one from an ASCAP representative and another representing the ARTS voice, were ignored in the Q&A.

Everyone in that room working for a Legislator get a paycheck at the end of their week. David Slater did not. David is not only down the hole with his out-of-pocket spent to make Selfie Monkee. David is out-of-pocket every royalty he had been denied. David is entitled to compensation. I hope, for every Content Creator like David, infringed, by Legislators and others, that David gets what is due him. And, icing on the cake, an all expense paid round trip from the UK to DC for Legislators to apologize in person. That said, conversely, an all expense paid round trip is in order from DC to UK to this author for hitting Legislators and Parliamentarians where it counts, with a belt below their consciences lacking guilt, for choosing to hear Wonks & Lobbyists rather than Content Creators with sass enough to be blunt.


The fingerman, selecting questioners from the audience said, after the event, "we were tipped off." The alleged 'tip off' was at another event where the leaflet was distributed, a panelist from the event was told Legislators should co-sponsor a bill guaranteeing Legislators stop sending 12 memes of Taylor Swift, Paris Hilton, Kim K, the Monopoly Man and others when Legislator staff think these violations will bring color to their purpose. Ultimately, the only color it will bring is green to the Content Creator, when they find our. Recall, eventually, Warhol's estate was forced by Campbell Soup to kick over cash after the Celeb artist's death, when Warhol was no longer the draw. Money is money, even In Memorium.

The greater good that will come from this event is a global agreement for Legislators, Parliamentarians and their staff to stop writing laws, they too, violate. Set the friggin' example, 'do as I do' no more just 'do as I say' or like Dotcom, there is a jail cell that can use filling- blue blood or blue collar, crime is crime.

The Bill is simple, a Contract with Content Creators, "WE YOUR LEADERS AGREE TO STOP STEALING FROM GLOBAL CONSTITUENTS."


The presenters at the event stated, an infringed is entitled to compensation per use, per medium, per page. Caccching Mr. Slater. Christmas is coming when you find capable representation and Parliamentarian support to put American Legislators toes to the fire when it comes to talking the Copyright Talk and Walking The Copyright Walk.... globally

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