Photographer David Slater is currently entangled with editors at Wikimedia Commons — a database featuring a large amount of “freely usable media files” — over whether a crested black macaque owns a photo it took of itself. The photo comes by way of a 2011 trip to an Indonesian national park taken by Slater. The monkey grabbed Slater’s unattended camera and proceeded to snap a number of photos.According to The Telegraph, the editors of Wikimedia Commons have argued that the copyright to the photo is owned by the monkey given that it took the picture.
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Image: David Slater and Caters News Agency by way of monkey
