Okay, here's a quick music quiz for you. What song is this?

Hey, it's Kevin Beach, and this is a special archived episode of Akembo.

If you answered our quiz with Stairway to Heaven, I'm afraid you weren't correct, but you are not alone.

That was Taurus from Spirit, a now little-known band that once toured with Led Zeppelin on the same bill,

and they have spent, or the heirs of the founder of the band, have spent millions of dollars

suing Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin because they have asserted that the classic Stairway to Heaven is stolen

from that song, which gets to the heart of how we protect our ideas and copyright.

And before we talk about Led Zeppelin, I want to spend a minute talking about David Slater

and the Macac monkeys of Indonesia.

David is a hardworking wildlife photographer, and he slammed headfirst into a paradox.

What did he do?

Well, in order to support some wildlife efforts and also to make a living, he went to Indonesia, bringing a ton of equipment

with him and a lot of expertise, and then spending a lot of time days or weeks, figured out

how to set up a shot where monkeys could perhaps take a selfie. Now, the very idea of a monkey selfie is clickbait. The monkey

selfie, the chance to see ourselves as primates, the chance to understand that we can't help

it when we're busy taking pictures of ourselves. Wow, a monkey selfie, that could go viral.

And in fact, it did.

If you go to the show notes at akimbo.link, you will see the most extraordinary monkey selfie.

Here's the problem.

The problem is that Slater, after spending all of this time and energy, setting up the shot

with lights, with lenses, with tripods, left the trigger to take the picture right there

in front of the monkey.

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