User talk:Slippyd

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Slippyd!

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File:Macaca nigra self-portrait full body.jpg

Hello, and welcome! Thanks for editing Wikimedia Commons. I'm afraid that you've chosen a somewhat difficult issue to start with, though. Under US copyright law, animals cannot own copyright for any photographs that they take. Also, the owners of the photographic equipment cannot claim copyright for photographs taken using that equipment (exactly the same as if you borrowed my camera to take a photo, you would own the copyright of the photo you took, and I wouldn't). So in this case, any copyright of the photo would belong to the monkey, who can't legally own copyright, which means that the image must be in the public domain. I appreciate that you've been to a school that purports to have taught this issue - but it sounds like they have mislead you on this issue. 503.03(a) doesn't come into the debate here at all, since that's a documentation issue not a copyright issue. Simply put: copyright belongs to the photographer (who, in this case, cannot own the copyright such that the image is in the public domain), not the person that owns the equipment. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

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