Question

In 2011, when British photographer David J. slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera was taken away by a group of black monkeys. The resu1t was hundreds of monkey selfies（自拍照）。The best ones show a monkey smiling toothily for the camera 1.

Nobody knew they would create a copyrjght(版權(quán)) battle three years later.

Last month, a website put the monkey se1f1es online under a collection of free photos without Slater’s permission(允許). 2. .

However, the website refused to do so. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the photo. 3. .

They Said,“US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can’t ask for copyright. That means monkeys don’t own copyright”.

___4.__He said he bought the cameras; he spent a lot of money traveling to Indonesia and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his cameras away.All these have made him own the pictures, no matter who pushed the button .In a sense,the monkeys helped him take the photos, Slater said.

5. Who do think will win this battle?

A. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button. B.As of now, there has been no result in the Monkey Selfie case. C. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular on the Internet D. Slater asked the website to take them down since he owns the copyright E. Slater argues that the pictures belong to him as they were taken from his camera.

Answer 1