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khaoz
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07 Aug 2014, 5:58 am

who owns the picture? I say Mr Slater owns the pictures. It was his camera even if the monkey did take the shot. How could the picture have gotten online in the first place if not for Mr Slater? Did the monkey post the picture? I don't think so. I think wiki is being petty and dishonest.

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07 Aug 2014, 6:34 am

I asked the monkey's legal team for a response:

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07 Aug 2014, 6:57 am

TallyMan wrote:
I asked the monkey's legal team for a response:

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The original monkey was much more handsome, but this guy has character too.



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07 Aug 2014, 7:01 am

Sorry, you aren't allowed to talk about the case to jurors as it may prejudice the case. :P

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07 Aug 2014, 3:40 pm

This reminds me of a court case in Austria

http://www.monkeyday.org/2007/09/austri ... human.html
http://www.monkeyday.org/2008/01/austri ... chimp.html
http://erlc.com/article/human-rights-for-apes/


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08 Aug 2014, 7:22 am

The London Telegraph on the 06/08/2014 wrote:
Monkey owns rights to selfies.

British nature photographer David Slater was photographing crested black macaques when one of the creatures stole off with one of his cameras and took hundreds of selfies.
Several of the images were undeniably charming and were widely distributed internationally.

Mr Slater now faces a legal battle with Wikimedia, after it released them for free online.

?If the monkey took [them], then it owns the copyright, they said, not me!"
-Mr. Slater.

The author credit on Wikimedia reads ?Self-portrait by the depicted Macaca nigra female?.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... ns-it.html