Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Monkey selfie

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Original – A self-portrait by a Celebes crested macaque. This photograph, as well as another in the series, was at the center of debate over the copyright status of images created by animals in mid-2014.
Reason
After the dust-up earlier this year, the image has enough EV to be featured (a previous nomination failed, though that was a different version). Whether or not to feature this on the MP could be discussed at a later date.
Articles in which this image appears
Monkey selfie, Animal-made art
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment
Creator
A monkey
  • Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I had supported it before and still feel this is a wonderful and creative one of a kind photo that now considering the courts ruling it surly belongs as a featured photo. talk→ WPPilot  02:31, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Animal-made art is a work of art created by an animal. To consider something as a "work of art", there should be some minimum level of creativity. But according to David Slater's earlier comments, it is only the reflection on the lens that attracts them. And an accidental click made the sound which made them curious to repeat further clicks. ""They aren't known for being particularly clever like chimps, just inquisitive." So I don't think it is an "animal made art"; just the center of attraction in a cheap copyright controversy. (I read later somewhere that Slater tried to reword his argument that he had intentionally set up this scene to make it happen this way. Nobody believes it; but if true, then there is some level of creativity from his side which may attract copyright. But again, no creativity from the animal.) Jee 02:55, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Macaca nigra self-portrait large.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:48, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]