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This essay has been published on the Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand, 2019, and was approved to republished on my personal page. Citation as Phuoc Nguyen, "The Monkey Selfie, artificial intelligence and authorship in copyright: the limits of human rights" (2019) 6 PILNZ. Abstract There are cases where a non-human being is the creator, the composer of a work (of art). Traditionally, the rights over the work (ownership, authorship) are only granted to a human. By studying the case of the Monkey selfie, together with the context of the current development of the artificial intelligences (AIs), this dissertation will examine whether the idea of recognising non-humans as authors can be justified, and how it could affect human rights. Contents I. Introduction II. The monkey selfie and the contemporary context of intellectual property authorship III. The copyright of non-human authors IV. Recognition of non-human authorship interrelated with human rights ...