Sorry Ellen! Bradley Cooper owns the rights to the most famous selfie in history... because he took the photo

Ellen Degeneres may have orchestrated the most famous selfie in the world, but she doesn’t actually own it.

Bradley Cooper was the one to click the button on the Samsung smartphone and capture the moment when 11 of the biggest stars in the world (and Lupita Nyong’o’s brother) got together for the Oscars photo.

That means he owns the copyright for the picture, and bragging rights, not Ellen.

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One of the stand out events of this year's Oscars ceremony was that ubiquitous selfie taken by Bradley Cooper on Ellen DeGeneres' phone, pictured. The problem that many people highlighted was the fact that Cooper's arms weren't quite long enough to fit everyone in

Even Samsung doesn't have a claim on the photo, despite supplying the new S5 phone that the selfie was taken on.



Of course, Bradley clearly didn’t mind her sharing the picture of himself, the Oscars host, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Jared Leto, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Lupita and Peter Nyong’o.

And the internet jumped on the chance to put their own touch on the historic image, by replacing many of the celebs faces with pizza, the Doge, and Nicolas Cage.

Not the right angle: Ellen couldn't get everyone in so passed the phone onto Bradley to take But technically Cooper has the right to stop anyone from reproducing or using the photo without his permission, or without paying him some cash first. But as the selfie has become the most shared picture of all time, the actor would have a hard time getting anyone to make a monetary offer for the shot. Within 45 minutes of posting, the epic selfie received more than 1 million retweets, and thanks to the amount of Twitter traffic it generated, the social networking site crashed during the ceremony.