Friday 3 June 2022

POV | Plagiarism


The well-known fashion and commercial photographer Jingna Zhang recently experienced what she Tweeted as 
"Some guy really ripped off my photo, won a €1,500 prize, exhibited in a biennale supported by the Luxembourg government, then tried to mansplain copyright infringement to me."


Plagiarism of images and photographs is really no different than plagiarism of words, music, or any original work. Copying an image from a book or the internet without citing the original source (or gaining permission of the creator when necessary) constitutes plagiarism.

In this case, the painting (left) is identical to the photograph but is flipped. It appears the  exhibition organizer in Luxembourg has removed any mentions of the painting.

Whether Ms Zhang takes legal action or not is unknown at this time...however I believe the painter has sullied his artistic reputation in his home country of Luxembourg, especially as the offense has been mentioned a number of times in art-related peiodicals.


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