Ah monkeys. They are bound to make us take ourselves less seriously with their crazy antics and primal displays of behaviour we pretend not to be intimately familiar with. All this innocence, and yet monkey selfies are causing massive copyright issues!
A blog post written by Monica Gaudio was copied entirely and published in a for-profit magazine, Cook’s Source, without permission or payment. On contacting the publication, Ms. Gaudio was informed that “the web is considered ‘public domain'” and that she should compensate Cook’s Source for editing her work. Things have not gone well for Cook’s Source since then.