The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception

Remember the monkey selfie? Animal rights organizations and a photographer went to court to fight over who owned the copyright in a picture where the photographer set up the camera but the animal took the pic, and great fun was had by all. But as our friends at Public Knowledge noted, maybe no one "owned" the picture.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/public-domain-rule-copyright-exception?source=Snapzu