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Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'
The Telegraph [UK] ^ | 06 Aug 2014 | Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 08/06/2014 12:55:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Wikimedia, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer’s repeated requests to stop distributing his most famous shot for free – because a monkey pressed the shutter button and should own the copyright[.]

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: copyright; napl; wikimedia; wikipedia
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To: Slings and Arrows

Absolutely beautiful.


21 posted on 08/06/2014 1:14:50 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: 1010RD

No one reads Kipling anymore.

/johnny


22 posted on 08/06/2014 1:20:55 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If you gave a million monkeys a million cameras eventually you’d get....


23 posted on 08/06/2014 1:29:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (We're The First Generation Not Forced To Fight To Defend Our Freedom.And It Shows!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Who gave Wiki the power to decide who owns the photograph?


24 posted on 08/06/2014 1:30:12 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Woo hoo! I'm famous now.

25 posted on 08/06/2014 1:30:43 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

26 posted on 08/06/2014 1:31:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TigersEye

"Touch him! Love him! Liebe mein Affe-Mienke! "

27 posted on 08/06/2014 1:32:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: smokingfrog

I must admit I first misread the photographer quoted saying, “That trip cost me about £2,000 for that monkey shot. ...”.


28 posted on 08/06/2014 1:32:58 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Slings and Arrows
Finally....and at long last....a really sweet close-up that can be used on FR to replace that old stock photo of Helen Thomas.

Leni

29 posted on 08/06/2014 1:35:06 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Combined US Senate & House has completely lost its voice, its compass, its patriotism & its soul!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oh Michelle, I see you’ve been to your periodontist, how nice!

(The monkey has no civil rights.)


30 posted on 08/06/2014 1:45:59 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: GeronL

That’s one pissed off looking monkey...boy..thing..um, yeah.

CC


31 posted on 08/06/2014 1:51:29 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Would this be the first Simian Selfie?


32 posted on 08/06/2014 1:54:08 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Slings and Arrows

33 posted on 08/06/2014 1:57:53 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Just how desperate do you have to be to photobomb a monkey’s selfie?


34 posted on 08/06/2014 2:00:29 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: smokingfrog

Hey! Monkey’s grin matches Julia’s! Whaddya know?


35 posted on 08/06/2014 2:02:15 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Celtic Conservative

It is Kang gary from “Running Man” who also does music videos, some of them not so childish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgfuaDS-S2c


36 posted on 08/06/2014 2:02:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Slings and Arrows
The monkey's lawyer, when asked for a comment:
37 posted on 08/06/2014 2:05:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“...problem?”

38 posted on 08/06/2014 2:13:28 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Slings and Arrows

At least the monkey didn’t do the “duck-lips.” That annoys me!


39 posted on 08/06/2014 2:16:09 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
If you gave a million monkeys a million cameras eventually you’d get....

...Tumblr.

40 posted on 08/06/2014 2:22:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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