self-portrait, usually informal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A selfie is a self-portrait photograph. It is typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.
One of the first self-portraits was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, an American photographer.[1] The term "selfie" was first used by photographer Jim Krause in 2005.[2]
A black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) stole a camera, and took a photo of herself. The selfie seemed to set a legal precedent when the Wikimedia Foundation rejected a copyright claim. The ground was that a non-human could not own a copyright, and the camera owner had not taken the photo, and so also could not own the copyright. And so, the photo was not under copyright.[3][4]
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