sherman of monkeys accidently revolutionize copyright law for artists so cindy sherman is the famous artist who takes self portraits and if you look at this image that's not cindy sherman that is a monkey from indonesia and he took the camera from a nature photographer visiting indonesia and took south portraits of himself now this has become a big copyright issue because copyright in for tog or free always belongs to whoever took the photo who actually snapped the button not to the person who owns the camera or whatever so the the man who took this photo david slater was working for caters news agency and now caters news agency is sending out cease and desist orders to people like tech dirt dot com who posted the photo and saying well you don't own the copyright and.

sherman of monkeys accidently revolutionize copyright law for artists so cindy sherman is the famous artist who takes self portraits and if you look at this image that's not cindy sherman that is a monkey from indonesia and he. took the camera from a nature photographer visiting indonesia and took self portraits of himself now this has become a big copyright issue because copyright in for ta graffiti always belongs to who ever took the photo who actually snapped the button not to the person who owns the camera or whatever so the the man who took this photo david slater was working for peter's news agency and now caters news agency is sending out cease and desist orders to people like tech dirt out com who posted the photo and texture to saying well you don't own the copyright and agency wrote back to them and say well neither do you so you can't post it all copyright law even in its current absurd iteration and we've talked about it before it's effectively a global bottom e. this perpetual copyright as lawrence lessig calls it doesn't extend to the animal kingdom now the monkey took

sherman of monkeys accidently revolutionize copyright law for artists so cindy sherman is the famous artist who takes self portraits and if you look at this image that's not cindy sherman that is a monkey from indonesia and he took the camera from a nature photographer visiting indonesia and took south portraits of himself now this has become a big copyright issue because copyright.