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Thursday, February 10, 2005

posted by Cory Doctorow at 10:24:39 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, February 10, 2005 Finnish anti-appropriationist painter plagiarizes from BMEZine Jukka Korkeila, a Finnish painter who insists that his paintings are wholly original, ~~that he~~ about whom it is said that he "does not quote or appropriate," has ripped off an image of a crazy penis-inserted-in-ear-piercing from the BME body-mod zine and included it in one of his paintings. As the owner of the BME site sez, "Jukka, if you're going to steal other people's ideas, there's nothing wrong with that -- in fact much of art's history is built around it -- but at least have the courage and strength of character to admit when you're doing it so blatantly." NSFW Link (Thanks, Shannon!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 10:24:39 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: