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# Monkey Business With Copyright
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/monkey-business-with-copyright/
- Published: 2011-07-15T13:20:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:40:55.000Z
- Description: Last Sunday, we linked [http://hyperallergic.com/28569/required-reading-19/] to the story about a monkey who took a photo and resulting legal issue of copyright around the image. Well, Techdirt who first asked the question, "Who Owns the Copyright?" just received a takedown notice [http://www.techdi
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Copyright, fair use, LOL, WTF, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/monkey-photo-146.jpg "monkey-photo-146")](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/01182015052/monkeys-dont-do-fair-use-news-agency-tells-techdirt-to-remove-photos.shtml?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Last Sunday, we [linked](https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-19/) to the story about a monkey who took a photo and resulting legal issue of copyright around the image. Well, Techdirt—who first asked the question “[Who Owns the Copyright?](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110706/00200314983/monkey-business-can-monkey-license-its-copyrights-to-news-agency.shtml?ref=hyperallergic.com)“—just received a [**takedown notice**](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/01182015052/monkeys-dont-do-fair-use-news-agency-tells-techdirt-to-remove-photos.shtml?ref=hyperallergic.com) requesting that they remove the monkey photos.

*An interesting blog post that suggests the photo is not protected by copyright law* [*here*](http://artmeetslaw.blogspot.com/2011/07/monkey-art.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, via* [*Art Law Blog*](http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/monkey-do.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)