Sunday, June 28, 2015

Englehart Cartoon Plagiarized

From Bob Englehart's Facebook page.

Many of you have seen this cartoon circulating around the Internet. Somebody took my cartoon "Going...Going...Gone!," stripped off my caption and my name and altered it. This is in complete violation of copyright law and respect for an artist's work. In the spirit of new beginnings, I won't call whoever did this any names or what they might do with themselves. Use your imagination. This appeared on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. If they are lawyers, they're not very good ones. They certainly don't know, or care, about copyright law.

Bob Englehart
Editorial Cartoonist
The Hartford Courant

The "Going...Going...Gone!" cartoon:



UPDATE

The Southern Poverty Law Center admitted their mistake. "We screwed up," was how they put it. They apologized. The whole story is on their FB page.

2 comments:

  1. The Southern Poverty Law Center admitted their mistake. "We screwed up," was how they put it. They apologized. The whole story is on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/SPLCenter/posts/10153463156194700

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