Putting aside the issue of whether any non-human primate can own copyright: at least one, and probably all of the photos have been retouched, cropped and otherwise altered for artistic improvement. This could render them derivative works, giving the photo editor (presumably Mr Slater) the copyright on these images.
Running with that thought, the derivative photos may be infringing on the original copyright, if a valid owner is ever determined, but as the original story pointed out, there probably isn't one. Thus, anyone would be free to do with them whatever they wish. THESE photos, however, would quite clearly be copyrighted.
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Derivative images
Putting aside the issue of whether any non-human primate can own copyright: at least one, and probably all of the photos have been retouched, cropped and otherwise altered for artistic improvement. This could render them derivative works, giving the photo editor (presumably Mr Slater) the copyright on these images.
Running with that thought, the derivative photos may be infringing on the original copyright, if a valid owner is ever determined, but as the original story pointed out, there probably isn't one. Thus, anyone would be free to do with them whatever they wish. THESE photos, however, would quite clearly be copyrighted.