Abstract :
BARONESS GREENFIELD is quite concerned that I´m not up to speed on the news story about the ´monkey selfie´ that´s gone viral on the Internet. She Googles the image and there before us on the screen in her Oxfordshire office is what appears to be a perfect portrait of a primate. But, because a human didn´t take the photograph, the image has been declared to be in the public domain. The result is that the photographer behind what is an iconic shot claims to have lost thousands of pounds in royalty fees.