Monkey photo copyright in question as Wikipedia denies photographer's takedown request: Digital Photography Review

21 Aug 2014 • dpreview.com

Since the photo in question wasn’t taken by Mr. Slater but rather the monkey, Wikimedia maintains that the copyright does not belong to the photographer. The photographer’s requests to have the photo removed from the website have been denied, and Wikimedia’s editors’ position on the matter is documented in a series of comments associated with the deletion request and a transparency report.

Copyright law states that works not originated by a human author can’t support a copyright claim, and that ‘a work owing its form to the forces of nature and lacking human authorship is not registrable.’

Can’t make it up. :)