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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 photographers 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; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Sounds like monkey business.
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posted on
08/06/2014 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: Slings and Arrows
He looks like a copyright owner.
/johnny
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/06/2014 12:57:37 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Part of that wacko movement to give monkeys “rights.” Liberals hate to admit that humans are above animals.
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posted on
08/06/2014 12:58:53 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: Slings and Arrows
That’s a good shot, and He’s smiling. Looks better than about 3/4 of my yearbook shots.
CC
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posted on
08/06/2014 12:59:12 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Slings and Arrows
Hilarious photo! The weed induced thinking over at Wikimedia look just as sophisticated.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:00:22 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: I want the USA back
They really do. The great victory of the Left in the classroom, particularly colleges/universities, was the abolition of the study of man. English departments abandoned Shakespeare. Philosophy departments abandoned the great philosophers of the past. History departments blotted out Western Civ, Christianity and the Christian God.
I hate to think of all the heroes who will die when the gods of the copybook headings return and of all the weasels who will live safe from the front lines.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:04:15 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Slings and Arrows
Definitely not camera shy.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:06:35 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Celtic Conservative
Maybe the photographer is worried about the competition.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:08:16 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:08:53 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Bullish; driftdiver
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:09:13 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: smokingfrog
Don’t you mean “monkey shot?”
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:09:39 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: F15Eagle
I’m already keeping an eye on Iran.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:10:26 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:12:07 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: Slings and Arrows
I really needs to be said? Monkeys are not people. They cannot own stuff.
The copyright belongs to the photographer.
This is silly.
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:12:49 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Slings and Arrows
If that’s the quality of shots monkeys are putting out these days, perhaps he should worry. If we hired that monkey for the DMV the photos on our drivers licenses would all look a lot better.
CC
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posted on
08/06/2014 1:13:41 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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