'...No, the Monkey owns the Copyright!'

Too funny, but that monkey selfie story from some months back has bubbled back to the surface with an interesting twist.



Gawker story titled: 'Wikipedia Won't Take Down Macaque Selfie Because the "Monkey Owns It"....'

from the link:

David Slater, the British nature photographer whose camera equipment was stolen by a selfie-mad macaque in 2011, has made repeated attempts to remove the famous photos that resulted from Wikimedia Commons, a database of royalty-free media from the organization behind Wikipedia. Wikimedia refused, claiming that the monkey—not Slater—owns the copyright.

Because the mischievous macaque pressed the shutter button, the organization argues, it is responsible for the photos and thus owns them. And because a monkey can't sit down at a computer and make a copyright claim, presumably, Wikimedia put them online for free.


http://gawker.com/wikipedia-wont-take-down-macaque-selfie-because-the-mo-1616872553

http://www.mediaite.com/online/photographer-sues-wikipedia-over-monkey-selfie/

from Mediaite:

Wikipedia’s Creative Commons contains thousands of free images, and in the past three years since the monkey selfie was published, its editors have kept uploading the macque’s photo under the argument that the monkey is the original copyright holder “because it was the one that pressed the shutter button,” The Telegraph reports. And unless the monkey suddenly becomes litigious, the image will remain in the public domain. (Most countries would agree with this interpretation, with many outright stating that photos must be created by humans in order to receive copyright protection.)