IM WITH MR SLATER ON THIS ONE - IT WAS HIS CAMERA :-D (the pic is funny though!!) David Slater was on a trip to Indonesia when an endangered crested black macaque grabbed his camera and started taking hundreds of pictures. When he looked at the shots, he spotted an incredible selfie of the grinning ape staring right into the camera lense. The picture went viral in newspapers, websites and magazines across the globe and the Gloucestershire photographers work was thrust into the internet spotlight. But he now faces a legal battle with Wikimedia after the organisation added the image to its online collection of royalty-free images. Spokesman Tomasz Kozlowski said: The work did not originate from Mr Slater as by his own admission he did not take the picture, the monkey did. However monkeys cant and dont own copyrights. But Mr Slater argued: It makes me very angry, Im a professional photographer - it costs me over £2,000 to do the trip. Its my livelihood. You take 20,000 shots to get one image that sells, it was potentially a good earner for me, Ive lost over £10,000 pounds because of it.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:58:30 +0000
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