Wikipedia's monkey selfie ruling

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Wikipedia's monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world's monkey artists
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How is an aspiring monkey photographer supposed to make it if she can’t stop the rampant internet piracy of monkey works?

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By the way, The Guardian did pay the human for use of these photos. Photograph and copyright: David J Slater / David J Slater Photography
In 2011, Indonesian macaques snatched David J Slater’s camera and started taking pictures of themselves. One of them – a selfie by a female macaque – has since gone viral. The Telegraph reports that Wikipedia denied a notice-and-takedown request from Slater, a professional nature photographer, because the monkey owns copyright on the disputed photo.

This is not really true. Wikipedia has actually claimed that the photo is uncopyrightable, since current US Copyright Office policy is that animals can’t own copyrights.
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Wikipedia's monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world's monkey artists | Sarah Jeong | Comment is free | theguardian.com
 
I think he has a case. If a photographer wanted to set up a camera so that a bird triggered the camera to take a picture, it wouldn't be a matter of whether the bird took the picture, and whether or not the bird owned the copyright, it would be the photographer who set it up, and owned the camera. Same goes for if I wanted the rain, or wind to trigger a camera.
 
I think Peta are being bullies here. Putting pressure on and causing expense to a nature photographer, just to gain publicity, and make some point. I don't suppose any individual at peta will lose any sleep over this, oh no.....just a day at the office.
 
Blobbenstein said:
I think Peta are being bullies here. Putting pressure on and causing expense to a nature photographer, just to gain publicity, and make some point. I don't suppose any individual at peta will lose any sleep over this, oh no.....just a day at the office.
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Indeed. Couldn't they find some other way to spin this case?
 
I bet the photographer does not even have a signed model release from the monkey...

... other than that, I have to agree that this seems to be trivializing the topic of animal rights.

Best regards,
Andy
 
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