MONKEY NOW TAKE SELFIE: CAUSES COPYRIGHT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN WIKIMEDIA AND PHOTOGRAPHER

In 2011, British photographer David Slater traveled to Indonesia to take pictures of the crested

 black macaque, and he succeeded. Not only did they accept him into their troop and allow him

 to take pictures of them, but also during the expedition, one of the monkeys went to where the 

photographer left his equipment, hijacked a camera and took hundreds of selfies.

Most of the selfies were no good, but a few of them were in focus and fantastic.

Now, David Slater is in a fight with the Wikimedia Foundation about the monkey selfie. They

have posted the photo online in their collection of public domain images and refuse to take it 

down. It argues that "Slater doesn’t own the picture’s copyright because he didn’t take the 

picture—the monkey did. And since the monkey can’t own the rights, nobody does."

See the selfies after the cut...# EBOLA IS REAL... E NO DEY SHOW FOR MONKEY FACE.