Poll: That Monkey Selfie

[leaskovski]

So, hopefully everyone has seen in the news the fight between wikimedia and the chap who 'was involved' in the monkey taking a picture of itself...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...efuses-to-delete-photo-as-monkey-owns-it.html

Wikimedia, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer’s repeated requests to stop distributing his most famous shot for free – because a monkey pressed the shutter button and should own the copyright

Now, I can't make my mind up on this, so I thought I would do a post and run. Can OcUK make my mind up for me? Can a Mod put a vote option on this with the options of 'Copyright of Money' and 'Copyright of Dave'?

Thanks

Picture of said monkey...

 

[leaskovski]

Definitely Copyright of Money

lol, whoops! Its a Friday afternoon...

 

[leaskovski]

Only humans can hold a copyright and the copyright goes to the person taking the picture, which is why wikipedia are saying no one holds the copyright.

Photographer is saying he tracked the monkey for weeks, got friendly enough to get close enough and he set up the camera. He was also saying what's stopping him using the monkey as his helper for his picture.

I personally think that the photographer was out to take the photograph with the monkey and put enough into the creation of the photo for him to hold the copyright.

MW

Thats a good point actually. So he can just claim that the monkey was employed by him (bananas, I hear they are a good form of payment to these dudes) and therefore claim copyright of him?

So, if I gave a camera to someone to get them to take a picture of me floating, the copyright is mine, or the chap who took it?

 

[leaskovski]

Poll from the article linked in the OP.

Yeah I saw that... but its full of none techno nerds like this place where we get poo through our letter box! This place gives better opinions.