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Who Owns Rights to a Monkey’s Selfie Photo?


Interesting thought! A photographer on vacation in Indonesia in 2011 was taking photographs when all of a sudden, a monkey, yes a monkey, grabbed his camera and took hundreds of photographs, including selfies of himself. Normally, if a photographer takes a photograph, he/she owns the rights. Does that mean that if a monkey takes the photographs the monkey owns the rights? Right now, the photographer and a website that has been using the photographs are fighting this issue. We will see what comes.