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More Monkey Business: Copyright and the World’s Most Famous Monkey Selfie

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Michael Kahn

In my other life as an intellectual property lawyer, I receive almost weekly proof that copyright law is the gift that goes on giving. This time it’s in the form of the world’s most famous monkey selfie, which first surfaced, in this blog and others, last year when an earlier copyright dispute came to light. The…

The Mysterious Case of the Monkey Selfie

Posted on November 20, 2014November 29, 2014 by Michael Kahn

When you practice copyright law by day and write novels at night, you experience odd moments of convergence, the most recent of which involves the most famous monkey selfie in copyright history. For those of you just returning to civilization after a ten-year sojourn in the wilderness, a “selfie”–as defined in the current edition of…