{"id":13827,"date":"2014-08-07T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13827"},"modified":"2014-08-07T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:44:19","slug":"wikipedias-monkey-selfie-ruling-is-a-travesty-for-the-worlds-monkey-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13827","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia&#8217;s monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world&#8217;s monkey artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/9uv7yL0m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13830\" src=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/9uv7yL0m-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"9uv7yL0m\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/9uv7yL0m-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/9uv7yL0m.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cmonkey selfie\u201d in question is a diamond in the mud: a truly remarkable portrait, perfectly focused and strategically positioned to capture a mischievous yet vulnerable smile. If that macaque had an Instagram account she\u2019d have, like, a million followers.<\/p>\n<p>But she doesn\u2019t, and the sorry state of our copyright law \u2013 as interpreted by the Copyright Office and exploited by Wikipedia \u2013 is to blame. Due to the backwards treatment of animal creators everywhere, monkey art (and monkey photography in particular) continues to languish. How is an aspiring monkey photographer supposed to make it if she can\u2019t stop the rampant internet piracy of monkey works?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/aug\/06\/wikipedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-artists\">Wikipedia&#8217;s monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world&#8217;s monkey artists | Sarah Jeong | Comment is free | theguardian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is an incontrovertible fact that a society with more monkey selfies is better than a society with none, so, as long as monkeys are denied copyright, we all lose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmonkey selfie\u201d in question is a diamond in the mud: a truly remarkable portrait, perfectly focused and strategically positioned to capture a mischievous yet vulnerable smile. If that macaque had an Instagram account she\u2019d have, like, a million followers. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-13827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13831,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions\/13831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}