{"id":9033,"date":"2017-07-15T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2017-07-15T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:01:58","slug":"monkeying-about-with-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/monkeying-about-with-selfies\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeying About with Selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9035\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MonkeySelfie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9035\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MonkeySelfie-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selfie taken by a Macaque Monkey for photographer David Slater back in 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My thanks once again to the curiosity of George Dunbar who awakened my interest in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/jul\/12\/monkey-selfie-macaque-copyright-court-david-slater#img-1\">article<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\">Guardian<\/a>. You may remember photographer David Slater. Back in 2011 David spent many hours training monkeys to keep their eyes open and snap a photo with his camera. This particular selfie by a macaque proved to be very popular and David initially earned some good money from its use.<\/p>\n<p>To his dismay, the image was considered public domain by Techdirt \u00a0and Wikipedia. His lengthy fight over ownership of the image resulted in him being sued in 2015 by the <em>macaque<\/em> over copyright ownership (actually &#8220;People for Ethical Treatment of Animals &#8211; PETA&#8221; filed the suit on behalf of the monkey). Impoverished by the legal costs, David is ready to pack it in and become a dog walker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My thanks once again to the curiosity of George Dunbar who awakened my interest in this article from the Guardian. You may remember photographer David Slater. Back in 2011 David spent many hours training monkeys to keep their eyes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/monkeying-about-with-selfies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,705],"tags":[514,1271,1274,1272,1273,1122],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photos","tag-copyright","tag-david-slater","tag-lawsuit","tag-macaque","tag-monkey","tag-selfie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}