A monkey in Indonesia cannot own the copyright to a famous smiling selfie it took in 2011, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The unanimous, three-judge panel upheld a lower court ...

This one is sure to put a smile on your face -- a team of Japanese researchers found that sleeping baby monkeys could shed light on the origins of laughter and smiles in humans. When either a chimp or ...

Tucked into Wikipedia’s transparency report yesterday was a tiny anecdote that involved the copyright of a photo. The story involved a selfie, a wildlife photographer, and a smiling monkey, so, quite ...

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the ...

The story behind the creepy smiling monkey photo.