By now, we’re all pretty familiar with the grinning face of the crested black macaque whose selfie sparked the internet’s favourite copyright battle ever. But let’s post it again just for fun … and also because, according to the US Copyright Office, we’re perfectly within our rights to do so. First, a quick recap. The monkey selfie controversy began when the snap-happy primate above got its hands on wildlife photographer David J. Slater’s camera at an Indonesian park back in 2011. The result? Hundreds of macaque selfies – but the grinning snapshot above was the one that launched a thousand memes and a sparring match with Wikimedia (the nonprofit behind Wikipedia).In a nutshell, Slater, concerned about lost royalties, demanded that Wikimedia remove the photo from its database of royalty-free media. Wikimedia refused: in its eyes, the macaque had pressed the shutter button and so the macaque was the rightful photographer … but since macaques can’t legitimately hold a copyright, macaque selfies belong to one and to all.