PETA, photographer reach settlement in 'monkey selfie' case

This is about the most asinine thing I have read in the last 45 minutes. Someone needs to give PETA a high colonic and send them on a 10 mile hike with a hull field pack. Who is going to be responsible for the 25% of the royalties of the picture going to Naruto? PETA?? what are they going to do send someone to give him a bunch of bananas each week?
Invest in a Banana farm? or set him up a 401K for when his days in front of the camera are over? The judge should have thrown this out of Court Fined PETA a half a million for even bringing this stupid case and like the Lawyer said made the photo Public Domain so one profits from it.

I think the Macaque was the smartest one of the group.

I understand the reason for the settlement. The last thing that most people really want is some rogue court declaring that animals have factual intellectual property rights, and this avoids a rogue judge with a pro-PETA bend to do just that.

I read the article but... am I dreaming? Drunk? Did I get hit with the Acme safe from the Road Runner? This is a real story?