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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: Boogieman

That photo has been “adjusted” more than any Adams print. It was color corrected, curve adjusted, saturated, and sharpened. Ansel burned and dodged.

I guess my point is that the “creation” is a lot more than clicking the shutter. I try to explain that to clients all of the time.


81 posted on 08/07/2014 11:01:07 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

“That photo has been “adjusted” more than any Adams print. It was color corrected, curve adjusted, saturated, and sharpened”

If that’s true, then the photographer might have an argument on that basis, but as far as I can tell, he hasn’t made that argument. The only indication that the photo was manipulated at all, that I have read, is that he cropped the photo to fix the alignment.


82 posted on 08/07/2014 11:09:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Slings and Arrows
LOL

Hairman Mao!?!

83 posted on 08/07/2014 1:18:30 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: RichInOC

Monkeys have learned to troll. We’re doomed.


84 posted on 08/07/2014 1:24:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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To: TigersEye

*snicker*

I was going to say “Will Pitt,” but I didn’t want to insult the monkey.


85 posted on 08/07/2014 1:31:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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