201412教学课件.ppt

Reading: In Light of a Monkey Selfie 浙江省杭州高级中学 汤 沛 执教 2014/12 welcome! Paragraphs 1-3 1. Which sentence best describes this picture? 2. How did this picture come into being? The best of images was a female macaque grinning toothily into the lens. A macaque got hold of Slater’s camera and hit the button. problem Paragraph 4 What made the picture return to the news? Wikimedia refused Slater’s request to take the photos down from Wikimedia Commons. ? Paragraph 5 Wikimedia’s opinion copyright ________ owns the copyright no human author had NOT held the camera set up the shot pressed the shutter button 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 isnt the copyright owner. US Copyright Law press the button surveillance cameras smart phones large-scale photography projects The boss set up the shot hold the camera set up the shot press the button Paragraph 7 Questions to ponder 1. How did Slater argue on this matter? 2. Why did he think he should own the copyright of the monkey selfie? copyright Slater’s opinion _________ owns the copyright He himself Paragraph 7 buying the camera transporting himself to Indonesia allowing the monkey to “steal” his camera Slater’s opinion copyright _________ owns the copyright He himself Law Paragraphs 8-9 * Identify the author’s attitude towards this issue. * Find evidence in the text to support your idea. Identify the authors 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 mor