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IMO a court will side with the photographer. If I dropped my camera, and whilst rolling down a hill it took a stunning photograph, it would be my photograph. The monkey isn't contesting his copyright claim, and I doubt that the copyright of a photograph depends upon something as specific as holding the camera and controlling the shutter. Giving non-human primates your camera to take pictures could be a photographic method. Wikipedia editors can be very uncool.