Wikipedia's monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world's monkey artists

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"With all due respect to Slater, the claim that setting up equipment automatically generates a copyright is a bit dubious â?? otherwise, photobooth companies might own the largest portfolios of copyrights in the country. And my sympathies go out to him â?? being a professional photographer is certainly a difficult endeavor by which to make oneâ??s living. But you know whatâ??s more difficult?

Being a monkey whoâ??s also a photographer."

[url]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/wikipedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-artists[/url]