Mr. XYZ is a professional photographer hired by the tv channel Nature & Discovery to capture the movement of various animals in the jungle and create documentary. Mr. XYZ fixed his camera in different parts of the ju

Copyright authorship and ownership is dependent on the fact and circumstance of the situation. The major issue in the given case is whether the animal's intellectual creativity can be a matter of copyright protection. The Intellectual Protection Rights jurisprudence right from the inception takes into consideration the intelligence of human beings only and therefore all Intellectual Protection Rights concepts are built and explored for the enjoyment of human beings. From the national and international perspective, the concept has been discussed from human angle only. Therefore, animal can't claim the copyright protection over the creative work. Further, in the case of Naruto v. Slater, No. 16-15469 (9th Cir. 2018) , the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the monkey lacked statutory standing because the Copyright Act does not expressly authorize animals to file copyright infringement suits.