The U.S. Copyright Office has settled the recent debate over the so-called monkey selfie, declaring in updated rules that a piece of content produced by an animal can't be registered.

Neither can content created by ghosts and gods. Seriously.

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"The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals or plants," the federal office, which operates under the Library of Congress, wrote in a recent update to its regulations. "Likewise, the office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings, although the office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy(ies) state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit."

That means hits like The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" should still be covered.

Not covered, however, would be the recent monkey selfie that caused controversy between Wikimedia Foundation and photographer David Slater.

Slater, during a trip through a national park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, came upon a crested black macaque. The monkey, one of a critically endangered species, ended up snapping a pic of herself with Slater's camera.

The photo later appeared in Wikimedia Commons, a database of free photos for public use. Slater asked that the picture be taken down, claiming it was his photo. Wikimedia disagreed.

The verdict: Wikiemedia wins. The revised rules even go as far as citing "a photograph taken by a monkey" as one of the works not covered, along with a mural painted by an elephant and driftwood shaped and smoothed by the ocean.