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Can a monkey own the copright on a photo?

hip_young_gunslinger [Edit] [Delete] 17:40, 6 August '14

Wikipedia thinks it can!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11015672/Wikipedia-refuses-to-delete-photo-as-monkey-owns-it.html

I always thought that the owner of a photo's copyright is the person who commissioned it, which in this instance, can be said to be the photographer... Anyway, funny photo, right?