Wikimedia Stands Up for Monkey Photographer Rights, Refuses to Take Down Monkey Selfie

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Wikimedia Stands Up for Monkey Photographer Rights, Refuses to Take Down Monkey Selfie

The controversy surrounding the monkey selfies above, which were taken by an endangered crested black macaque using photographer David Slater’s equipment,

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/06/wikimedia-stands-monkey-photographers-rights-refuses-take-monkey-selfie/

claiming that it is the monkey who owns the copyright