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Line 21: [[File:Macaca nigra self-portrait large.jpg\|thumb\|One of the monkey selfies at issue in the dispute]] Between 2011 and 2018, a series of disputes took place about the [[copyright]] status of [[selfie]]s taken by [[Celebes crested macaque]]s using equipment belonging to the British [[wildlife photography\|wildlife photographer]] David ~~John~~J. Slater. The disputes involved [[Wikimedia Commons]] and the blog ''[[Techdirt]]'', which have hosted the images following their publication in newspapers in July 2011 over Slater's objections that he holds the copyright, and [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA), who have argued that the copyright should be assigned to the macaque. Slater has argued that he has a valid copyright claim because as he engineered the situation that resulted in the pictures by travelling to Indonesia, befriending a group of wild macaques, and setting up his camera equipment in such a way that a selfie might come about. The [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s 2014 refusal to remove the pictures from its Wikimedia Commons image library was based on the understanding that copyright is held by the creator, that a non-human creator (not being a [[legal person]]) cannot hold copyright, and that the images are thus in the [[public domain]].

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