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Monkey selfie ignites a copyright dispute
Monkey see, monkey do. But when a monkey takes a selfie, who owns the copyright?
猴子看了，有樣學樣。但當一隻猴子拍了一張自拍照，誰擁有著作權？
Photographer David Slater complained that Wikipedia rejected his requests for the images to be removed from the website. He said he owns the copyright to the images of crested black macaque monkeys, which were taken in the Indonesian jungle in 2011.
攝影師大衛．史拉特控訴「維基百科」拒絕他所提出將影像自網站移除之請求。他說他擁有2011年攝於印尼叢林的黑冠猴影像之著作權。
Slater told the BBC that although the monkeys pressed the button, he had set the self-portraits up by framing them and setting the camera on a tripod.
史拉特告訴《英國廣播公司》，雖是猴子們按下按鈕，但他先把他們放入構圖和把相機放置於腳架上，設定了自攝功能。
But Wikimedia Foundation argued that Slater didn’t own the copyright to the photos because he didn’t take the images.
但「維基媒體基金會」主張，史拉特不具有這些照片的著作權，因為他並未拍攝這些影像。
It said no one owned the copyright to the images, because under U.S. law, "copyright cannot vest in non-human authors" — the monkeys in this case.
它說沒有人擁有這些影像著作權，因為根據美國法律，「著作權不能歸屬於非人類作者」——在此案例中為猴子們。
"When a work’s copyright cannot vest in a human, it falls into the public domain. We believe that to be the case here," the group said in a statement.
「維基媒體基金會」在聲明中說，「當一件作品的所有權不歸於一個人類，它就落入公共領域。我們相信本案例即是如此。」
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