Some Portland (OR) State University students have been protesting this week, calling for campus security to be disarmed. Because, stupid.

PETA is suing to make the government assign a copyright for a “selfie” picture to a monkey (a macaca nigra). The US Copyright Act [17 U.S.C. 102(a)] protects “original works of authorship,” and states that the copyright office will not register works produced by nature, animals or plants.