Monkey ‘selfies’ spark copyright dispute

Published August 7, 2014 4:54pm ET



LONDON (AP) — A series of “selfies” taken by Indonesian monkeys has sparked a copyright argument between a British photographer and Wikipedia.

Photographer David Slater had asked for the portraits of crested black macaque monkeys taken in 2011 to be removed from the website, arguing that he owns the copyright to the images.

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