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[.]
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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.
“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.
Hairman Mao!?!
Monkeys have learned to troll. We’re doomed.
*snicker*
I was going to say “Will Pitt,” but I didn’t want to insult the monkey.
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