Who owns the copyright for this monkey selfie?
August 07, 2014 12:50
Wikipedia has refused to delete the image of a monkey as the organisation claims that the featured Macaque owns it.
Since the Macaque hasn't expressed any interest in it being taken down Wikipedia argues that they have every right to keep it up.
The man who owned the camera was nature photographer David Slater who had been trying to capture a picture of the monkeys for hours when one snuck up, stole one of his cameras and took hundreds of selfies.What resulted was to be Slater's eureka moment as the image became universally popular and shot him to fame. Read more
Pic: Wikimedia Commons
Since the Macaque hasn't expressed any interest in it being taken down Wikipedia argues that they have every right to keep it up.
The man who owned the camera was nature photographer David Slater who had been trying to capture a picture of the monkeys for hours when one snuck up, stole one of his cameras and took hundreds of selfies.What resulted was to be Slater's eureka moment as the image became universally popular and shot him to fame. Read more
Pic: Wikimedia Commons
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