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A photograph is often subject to copyright - but there's actually some nuance here; some countries also require a certain level of creative input by a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

Areas of dispute include photographs of famous paintings (is it more in the character of a photocopy?), photographs taken by animals (does the human get copyright if they deliberately created the situation where the animal would take a photograph?), and videos taken automatically (can a CCTV video have an author?)

Historically, the results are all over the place.



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