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Monkey See, Monkey Do Selfie?

By Steve Baird® on August 8, 2014
Posted in Articles, Copyrights, Fair Use, International, Law Suits, Loss of Rights, Technology

Is photography nowadays really so easy even a monkey can do it?

What about a caveman?

If Wikimedia is right, the caveman would own a copyright in his selfie (or perhaps Geico, under the work for hire doctrine) because he is a human being, capable of being an author under U.S. copyright…

A Monkey, a Blogger, and a News Agency Walk into a Bar . . .

By Duets Guest Blogger on July 18, 2011
Posted in Copyrights, Fair Use

–Dan Kelly, Attorney

TechDirt published a post a couple of weeks ago about a monkey that took some photos.  TechDirt explored whether the monkey could own or assign the copyright in the photos.  It is worth surfing over to see one of the self-portraits, and the commentary is interesting.  Just last week, TechDirt reported that…

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