1. In Light of a Monkey Selfie
Reading:
In Light of a Monkey Selfie
浙江省杭州高级中学
汤 沛 执教
2014/12
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3. A macaque got hold of Slater’s camera and
Paragraphs 1-3
problem
1. Which sentence best
describes this picture?
2. How did this picture
come into being?
A macaque got hold of Slater’s camera and
hit the button.
The best of images was a female macaque grinning toothily into the lens.

4. from Wikimedia Commons.
Paragraph 4
What made the picture
return to the news?
Wikimedia refused
Slater’s request
to take the photos down
from Wikimedia Commons. ?

5. ________ owns the copyright
Paragraph 5
no human author
Wikimedia’s
opinion
________ owns the copyright
copyright
had NOT
held the camera
set up the shot
pressed the shutter button

6. Paragraph 6
Questions to ponder
1. What was Wikimedia’s opinion based on?
2. Why is Justin Bieber mentioned here?
* Find out the cases where the person who presses the button isn't the copyright owner.

7. US Copyright Law press the button The boss set up the shot
surveillance
cameras
hold the camera
set up the shot
press the button
smart
phones
large-scale
photography
projects
The boss set up
the shot

8. _________ owns the copyright
Paragraph 7
Questions to ponder
1. How did Slater argue on this matter?
He himself
copyright
Slater’s
opinion
_________ owns the copyright
2. Why did he think he should own
the copyright of the monkey selfie?

9. _________ owns the copyright
Paragraph 7
He himself
Slater’s
opinion
_________ owns the copyright
copyright
Law
buying the camera
transporting himself to Indonesia
allowing the monkey to “steal” his camera

10. Paragraphs 8-9 * Identify the author’s attitude towards this issue.
* Find evidence in the text to support
your idea.

11. Identify the author's attitude
But if one is to believe his own way of telling the story, Slater didn’t ask the monkeys to take the selfies and finally took the camera away.
If that seems unfair, think about this. If a person left her laptop in a café, and a poet picked it up, opened up a word-processing program, and typed out a poem which turned out to be the best poem of this generation, could she ask for much more than her laptop back?
But
didn’t ask the monkeys to take the selfies
took the camera away.
direct or indirect ?
cite an example

12. Appreciation
What expressions in this text are useful for expressing one’s ideas or opinions?
___________________________________________

13. Application (1) According to ... (2) In terms of ..., ... says ...
(3) The question that arose here was ...
(4) My position on this was clear: ...
(5) I believe in this case, …
...

14. Application Group-work Present your point of view on this issue.
* Which side are you on, Wikimedia or
Slater? Or do you have a third-party stand?
Please base your opinion on solid grounds.

15. Application (1) According to ... (2) In terms of ..., ... says ...
(3) The question that arose here was ...
(4) My position on this was clear: ...
(5) I believe in this case, …
...

16. Assignment * Have you ever come across copyright
problems in your life? If you have, please
write about it and state your point of view.
* Try to follow the structure of argumentation.
* You are welcome to use expressions in this
article when you argue.

17. Thank you very much!