I have long supported the possibility that apes are intelligent. And that monkeys and my dogs might be smarter than people assume. And, because they are unlikely to take such a portrait consciously, the connection between a smile in a mirror and a conscious self-portrait is very unlikely.
Also, in the picture at the bottom of the page, it seems pretty clear that the monkey is the one with his hand on the shutter release button (or whatever it’s called).
If you read more than one or two articles about copyright on that site you’ll quickly realize that TechDirt is convinced that EVERYTHING is either public domain or can be used without permission any way you want to just by stating the magic words “it’s fair use!”
TechDirt’s coverage of copyright is comparable to Conservapedia’s articles on liberalism: even taking into account the extreme bias it’s still amazing somehow just how colossally stupid the things they say are.