Friday, August 22, 2014

Review of WLCI College on Monkey Selfie!


Recently the federal court of USA faced a strange dilemma. The copyright issue of photographs taken by a monkey! Yes you read it right-a monkey! The monkey selfie that caused controversy between Wikimedia Foundation and photographer David Slater was taken by a 'Black Macque' monkey. The monkey, one of the critically endangered species, ended up snapping a pic of herself with Slater's camera which was later posted online that led to a major copyright controversy. The federal court has categorically ruled that content created or produced by an animal’s can't be registered or copyrighted putting to rest wild speculations about a new dimension of content creation!

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Review of WLCI College on Monkey Selfie!
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