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Looks like Michelle.
There is an entire school of wildlife photography where an automated camera is set up along a place where animals are known to pass, and the animal takes its own picture by setting off the camera. Would this fall under that category?
The US Copyright Office refusal to register the copyright is ridiculously wrong, and the nature photographer needs to sue Wikimedia and everyone else possible over this outrageous nonsense. People and corporations have been registering copyrights for works created or actuated by other persons and non-persons since the copyright was originated, so this example should be treated no differently.
Why not take this to its logical conclusion.
Photographs taken by mechanical devices such as cameras are not actually created by the photographer, rather they are created by the camera. So, accordingly, no photograph may be protected by copyright.
We have a government infested with fools and idiots.
BULLSH!T
If you have an automatic camera system (snapping photos) you own the camera and the contents.
You even own a work shot at your direction by someone else’s hand with your camera (”can you take my picture, please”) unless they otherwise stipulate.
Wiki claimed that the monkey owned the image. The copyright office said monkeys don’t get to claim copyright.
And the posted photo was edited by the man’s hand. His image.