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Creative Sparks: Works Of Nature, Selection, And The Human Author, Neal F. Burstyn
Creative Sparks: Works Of Nature, Selection, And The Human Author, Neal F. Burstyn
Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
It is now common knowledge that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, they will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. But according to the United States Copyright Office, if you give that same group of monkeys a camera, you do not get copyright in any pictures they may happen to take. In 2011, British wildlife photographer David Slater was in Indonesia when a group of crested black macaques began playing with his camera equipment and snapped some pictures, one of which went viral and proved temporarily profitable for Slater. The popular image, known …