July 23, 2011: Monkey takes its own pic (and who gets the copyright?)

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Originally Posted by Rhianne

My understanding has always been, from a historical UK point of view at least, that when the photographer cannot claim the copyright it becomes the property of the owner of the film - but I doubt Mr Slater used film...

I remember similar cases where the decision of ownership came down to who had the most skin in the game as they say. Essentially film or not, whoever funded the shoot, supplied camera, crew, technical back-up and otherwise bankrolled it, is the holder of the copyright.