{"id":3856,"date":"2014-08-06T14:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:05:29","slug":"wikimedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-would-be-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/08\/wikimedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-would-be-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia: Monkey Selfie Copyright Would Be Monkey&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-portrait taken by a monkey is at issue in a copyright dispute. Wikimedia claims that it would belong to the monkey, if non-human animals could hold copyrights, and because they can&#8217;t, it&#8217;s in the public domain. The owner of the camera has another idea. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/11015672\/Wikipedia-refuses-to-delete-photo-as-monkey-owns-it.html\"><i>The Telegraph<\/i> on the subject.<\/a> Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macaca_nigra\">the Wikipedia page where the photo appears,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macaca_nigra#mediaviewer\/File:Macaca_nigra_self-portrait.jpg\">the full-size photo with Wikimedia&#8217;s copyright position<\/a> available via the media viewer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3863\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/monkey_selfie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/monkey_selfie.jpg\" alt=\"Public domain (although this status is contested). Photo taken by the pictured monkey.\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/monkey_selfie.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/monkey_selfie-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listed by the hosting site as public domain (although this status is contested). Photo taken by the pictured monkey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, I know this isn&#8217;t an <i>urban<\/i> selfie, but I would love to see it and many other non-human selfies incorporated into the <a href=\"http:\/\/selfiecity.net\/\">Selficity project.<\/a> We might find interesting correlations regarding the angle and variation in head tilt, for instance. And of course it would be provocative to just know which of the five cities shoots selfies in a way that is most similar to monkeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-portrait taken by a monkey is at issue in a copyright dispute. Wikimedia claims that it would belong to the monkey, if non-human animals could hold copyrights, and because they can&#8217;t, it&#8217;s in the public domain. The owner of the camera has another idea. Here&#8217;s The Telegraph on the subject. Also, the Wikipedia page &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/08\/wikimedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-would-be-monkeys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikimedia: Monkey Selfie Copyright Would Be Monkey&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,152,160],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-photography","tag-selfies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}