Jake Parker: Alleged Plaigarist
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This is crazy. Jake Parker is huge in illustration. He started Inktober. And he's an awesome illustrator, there's no need for him to do this. My guess is, he's so big now that he has People to make products for him, and they (uh, allegedly) plagiarized.
I bought Dunn's book the day it came out.
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Any update on this? I watched the video, seems likely that some subcontractor plagiarized it.
@Horace said in Jake Parker: Alleged Plaigarist:
Any update on this? I watched the video, seems likely that some subcontractor plagiarized it.
None yet. And that's exactly what I think happened.
Parker already pissed off some members of his community a year or so ago by allowing his lawyers to aggressively litigate against artists selling their Inktober work. Rubbed people the wrong way, but he bounced back. Now, though? I have no idea.
@Horace check out his IG, though. SHIT. STORM.
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He's doubling down and actually going with a "happenstance" defense. Unbelievable.
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Huh. I guess the potential for a "the-ghost-writer-did-it" defense is abandoned.
It's not even actionable if he never sells the book, right? Maybe alphonso played his cards too soon.
@Horace said in Jake Parker: Alleged Plaigarist:
Huh. I guess the potential for a "the-ghost-writer-did-it" defense is abandoned.
It's not even actionable if he never sells the book, right? Maybe alphonso played his cards too soon.
I don't know.
Where I'm at now is: Dunn showed his notes, exactly where his method of interpreting the fundamentals came from. Parker clams up, gets legal, but then never distributes the book? Then he's a lying ass dog. He provides some kind of explanation on his method of interpreting the fundamentals (notes would be helpful), okay, I'll be open to the "outrageous coincidence" defense.
A huge strike against him is that Dunn's book provides techniques to learn how to do street sketches, not cartoons. Because that's what Dunn makes. Parker's a cartoonist.
