Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say

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32. Painting is a different medium than photography

but actually a similar case exists with the popular artist, Thomas Kincaid -- I know, his critics might very well compare him to zombies -- hired artists to add embellishments to prints of his paintings and profited handsomely. Nonetheless, the artworks were still his property, not the artists who applied the extra paint.

Back to camera, though, there are some well known photographers who have presented photo collections made from digital cameras that were handed out to random people to document a specific subject of interest. The photographers still retained the intellectual property rights to the work, not the people taking the shots.