Reply to post: Re: Who takes the picture?

Simian selfie stupidity: Macaque snap sparks Wikipedia copyright row

Gordon 11

Re: Who takes the picture?

If I get some passing stranger to take a picture of me, using my own camera, who owns the copyright?

I'd expect that to be me. And I suspect that the legal system has already tested this at some point...

[5 mins later..] And indeed. I've just tracked down this!!!

http://www.ipwhiteboard.com.au/who-owns-the-copyright-in-your-family-holiday-photographs-what-about-a-selfie-the-answer-is-not-what-you-would-expect/

(albeit for Australia or New Zealand), which would seem to support Wikipedia and not me.

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