{"id":6368,"date":"2011-07-16T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T16:48:14","slug":"simian-copyrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/07\/16\/simian-copyrights\/","title":{"rendered":"Simian Copyrights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/lawschool\/dpost\/writings.html\">David Post<\/a> blogs about an <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2011\/07\/14\/my-career-comes-full-circle\/\">interesting legal problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A wildlife photographer left his camera on the ground in an Indonesian national park. A monkey picked up the camera and took several interesting pictures, including a grinning self-portrait. The photos were subsequently published. The question is: who owns the copyright?<\/p>\n<p>Well the copyright to photographs belongs to the one who took them, which in this case was the monkey. It doesn&#8217;t appear that the monkey properly licensed them for publication. Post agrees that the monkey&#8217;s rights have been violated and offers to represent him, with the prospect of obtaining a substantial number of bananas in compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor David Post blogs about an interesting legal problem. A wildlife photographer left his camera on the ground in an Indonesian national park. A monkey picked up the camera&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/07\/16\/simian-copyrights\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,63],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-wonderful-and-strange","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}