Monkey selfies bring copyright to
the forefront
Mathias Klang
There is an interesting conflict brewing in England involving a photographer, Wikimedia and
a monkey. The basic story is that David Slater
was trying to take a photo of a crested black
macaque. One of the monkeys took a camera
and took hundreds of photos. A set of these turned out to be the (now-famous) monkey selfies
and appeared everywhere across the web. My
favorite is the one with the toothy grin.
David Slater claims copyright in the photo and
meanwhileWikimedia Commons argues: “This
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file is in the public domain, because as the work
of a non-human animal, it has no human ]]܂