Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Aug. 12, 2014
Monkeying around with copyright law
Wikimedia's first "Transparency Report" details a copyright takedown request from a photographer who claimed ownership of a series of pictures taken by an Indonesian macaque monkey who borrowed his camera for a while.
Dan D. Nabel
Principal Counsel
Riot Games
Dan also teaches Video Game Law at USC Gould. His new book, "Video Game Law in a Nutshell," will be available in July 2018 from West Academic."
Last Wednesday, Wikimedia released its first ever "Transparency Report." The report details all of the content alteration/removal requests, copyright takedown requests, and requests for user data that Wikimedia received over the last couple years. The report prominently details a January 2014 copyright takedown request that Wikimedia received from a photographer who claimed ownership of a series of pictures, including some "selfies," which were taken not by the photographer - but by an I...
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