If a Monkey Steals Your Camera, Who Owns the Photos?

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If a Monkey Steals Your Camera, Who Owns the Photos?

You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright.

via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5820714/if-a-monkey-steals-your-camera-who-owns-the-photos

So who in this chain owns the rights to these photos? Is it the monkeys who took the pictures? The man who owns the camera but didn’t take the photos? Or the news agency that merely sent them out? This issue has not been ironed out, but it could be soon.