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\n The ‘monkey selfie’ story is not over yet
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\n <\/sup>\n <\/p>\n

The US Copyright Office states that it will only register an original work of authorship, \u2018provided that the work was created by a human being’.<\/p>\n

In a widely reported<\/a> draft of the third edition of its Compendium of US Copyright Practices<\/a> \u2013 published on 19 August \u2013 it adds that the office \u2018will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants’. <\/p>\n

It cited, as an example, \u2018a photograph taken by a monkey’.<\/p>\n

However, in an interview with Amateur Photographer<\/em> (AP) today (22 August), Slater said: \u2018I was the human origin of that photograph. Without me, it wouldn’t have happened.<\/p>\n

\u2018The one that takes a photograph is the one that sets it up.’<\/p>\n

The word \u2018created’ in the US Copyright Office’s phrase \u2018created by a human being’ is key, says London-based copyright lawyer Charles Swan.<\/p>\n

Under Section 9 (1) of the UK’s Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the author of the work is the \u2018person who creates it’.<\/p>\n

As AP reported at the height of the controversy<\/a>, Slater’s central claim is that he directed the photographic shoot by handing a remote shutter release to the black macaque, in the hope it would eventually trigger the shutter.<\/p>\n

Slater today maintained that he holds copyright, in the same way that a wildlife photographer<\/a> owns rights to an image when an animal fires the shutter remotely by crossing an infrared beam set up for that purpose.<\/p>\n

He says \u2018all photographers are in trouble’ if this no longer applies.<\/p>\n

Slater today told AP he is still speaking to lawyers in the UK and the US over the matter and, at the time of writing, has not filed a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Charles Swan adds there may be an argument that the monkey photo is a \u2018computer-generated’ work, if Slater’s camera is deemed to be a computer. <\/p>\n

A \u2018computer-generated’ work is one that is \u2018generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work’, under UK law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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