{"id":1387,"date":"2014-08-11T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2014-08-11T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T19:44:40","slug":"another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another monkey selfie story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-day\/\" data-text=\"Another day, another monkey selfie story\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/08\/06\/just-another-monkey-copyright-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Volohk Conspiracy<\/a> and other sundry sources I have forgotten, we \u00a0have this story about a photographer, a macauqe monkey, a camera purloined by said monkey, a selfie taken by said monkey with the purloined camera and back to the photographer who wishes to assert copyright of the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Since I have it on good authority that I can reproduce the photo without violation of any copyright:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1389\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-day\/monkey-selfie-2-199x300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monkey-selfie-2-199x300.png\" alt=\"Cowabunga, dude.  Oh wait.  That was a turtle.  Never mind.\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monkey-selfie-2-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monkey-selfie-2-199x300-99x150.png 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cowabunga, dude. Oh wait. That was a turtle. Never mind.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a pretty happy monkey. \u00a0Anyhoo&#8230;the photographer himself is the source of the story that the photo was not taken by him, but by the monkey. \u00a0Since the photo is not the photographer&#8217;s work, he cannot claim copyright over it. \u00a0Since the monkey is non-human, he (it?) cannot claim copyright either. \u00a0Therefore according to copyright law, the copyright belongs to no one. \u00a0So&#8230;..monkey selfies for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Via The Volohk Conspiracy and other sundry sources I have forgotten, we \u00a0have this story about a photographer, a macauqe monkey, a camera purloined by said monkey, a selfie taken by said monkey with the purloined camera and back to the photographer who wishes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}