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One of two
monkey selfies
taken by
Celebes crested macaques
using equipment belonging to the British nature photographer David Slater. In mid-2014, the images' hosting on
Wikimedia Commons
was at the centre of a dispute over whether copyright could be held on
artworks made by non-human animals
. Slater argued that, as he had "
engineered
" the shot, he held copyright, while Wikimedia considered the photographs
public domain
on the grounds that they were made by an animal rather than a person. In December 2014, the
United States Copyright Office
stated that works by a non-human are not subject to US copyright, a view reaffirmed by a
US federal judge
in 2016.
Photograph: Depicted
Celebes crested macaque
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