Posted on 02/27/2005 7:37:24 AM PST by alienken
TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own.
Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies.
But one of the buyers, Duke Prentup, told Denver's CBS affiliate KCNC-TV of a stunning discovery he made last month while flipping through a book of illustrations by the late artist Thomas E. Mails.
The work signed by Churchill virtually is a mirror image of Mails' 1972 pen and ink sketch, "The Mystic Warriors of the Plains."
KCNC reporter Raj Chohan took a cameraman to Churchill's office Thursday to confront him with the revelation and received an angry response.
Artwork signed by Ward Churchill (KCNC-TV, Denver)
"Get that camera out of my face," Churchill said.
Chohan followed the professor down the hallway to his office, trying to show him Mails' piece and asking to explain why it "looks like you ripped it off."
Original artwork by Thomas Mails(KCNC-TV, Denver)
That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan.
The reporter said: "Sir, that's assault, you can't do that. Can I ask you about this? It looks like you copied it."
Churchill: "I was just grabbed by the arm. And that [camera] gets out of my face."
Chohan: "Sir, we're allowed to take these pictures, this is a public space."
Churchill: "You're not allowed to grab me by the arm."
Chohan: "He didn't touch you sir, we've got it all on tape. Sir, this is called Winter Attack. It's a serigraph by you. It looks like it was copied from Thomas Mails artwork. Can we talk to you about that please?"
Churchill came out of his office several minutes later and agreed to talk, acknowledging his artwork is based on the Mails piece.
He insisted, however, he disclosed that during its initial release.
"It is an original art work by me, after Thomas Mails," Churchill said. "The fact that the purchaser was ignorant of the reality of what was perfectly publicly stated at the time the edition was printed is not my responsibility."
However, no credit was given to Mails on the artwork, and Churchill refused to provide documentation to back his claims.
Intellectual property attorney Jim Hubbell told the Denver station such documentation, if it exists, still would not protect Churchill from copyright infringement unless he had consent from Mails.
The son of the late Thomas Mails told KCNC the family retains the copyright.
"My father invested a great deal of himself in his work, and from that he developed a great fierceness in defending his work," Ryan Mails said. "I cannot imagine he would ever grant permission to anyone to copy one of his pieces."
Controversy erupted around Churchill last month, when one of his essays made it into the national spotlight.
Written shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, it describes the thousands of American victims who died in the World Trade Center inferno as "little Eichmanns" a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann who were perpetuating America's "mighty engine of profit." They were destroyed, he added, thanks to the "gallant sacrifices" of "combat teams" that successfully targeted the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Churchill resigned his position as head of the Colorado University ethnic studies program but kept his $96,000 per year teaching post. He steadfastly has refused to apologize for his comments.
He's also come under fire for claiming an American Indian heritage, training terrorists, and meeting with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi in the 1980s when the U.S. had banned travel there.
In addition, he's accused of writing essays with passages "almost identical" to those of other authors.
The University of Colorado Regents is probing whether Churchill has violated tenure and expects to announce a decision in March.
Excellent comparison....Looks like a "Chester the Molester" too! What's with that hair? Some guys just think long hair grants them access to cool...sorry dude...that is so 60s....it ain't happening for ya!
Originally posted by cajungirl
http://www.darknightpress.org/index.php?i=news&c=recent&view=6&long=1
I can't do a link but go here,,there is an account by Chief faux injun of his dead wife,,fascinating reading. 1/3 of the way down he describes how she moved in with him at age 24, he got her into CU and they lived together while she was an undergrad. This stuff is a lie according to her sister. But really gets you into the guys head. I will try to post part of it.
Too much to post. Yall go read, it is long. In it he defames her parents {according to her sister}, blames her death on everyone. But the truth is she was with him that night, she was drunk and somehow he doesn't know how or why she was running down the street. His account is self serving and makes me very suspicious. I cannot believe he wrote this, it is so very damning.
For fraud!
This clown manufactured his credentials, and out and out lied.
HA! HA! HA! I love it!
I have looked but can't find the addresses of the CU Regents here on FR It is here because I mailed all of them....help and post it??? all write them...heck deluge them....no FREEP them (-;
#22
she had a BAC of .35 how much running was she doing and how much 'carrying to the street was he doing'. The motorist that hit her said she was lying motionless across the oncoming lane
Have you seen the Little Green Footballs reader's morphing of the two? Increase Mail's piece by 109%, reverse it, and the two overlap perfectly, down to the shape of the grass and the position of each rider's feathers, even the position of the horses' legs. Yet Churchill still maintains it is an original composition. (Yes, Ward, but why are all your Indians left-handed in the piece?)
Great morphing...never seen that before ...thanks
It appears to me that he is an attention-seeking liar, like that Lori Hacking's husband. He'll do something like admit himself to a psych ward any minute. I doubt he'll do himself in...he's loving this, I bet.
Don't say that!
I'll have something to thank that POS for. ;)
Churchill owns the copyleft. ;-)
Agreed.
Particularly for a guy like me who "judges the book by the cover". ;)
Here is a more convenient cut/paste list for emails:
Peter.Steinhauer@colorado.edu, Regent.Schauer@Colorado.edu, Jerryrutledge@adelphia.net, tommyjclay@aol.com, Regent.Hayes@Colorado.edu, Gail.Schwartz@colorado.edu, Regent.Bosley@colorado.edu, Regent.Carlisle@Colorado.edu, Carrigan@colorado.edu,
5 posted on 02/26/2005 1:17:28 PM PST by Nate1984
remind them they are responsible as enablers of criminal activity reported to them concerning Churchill for years
--great---thanks--
Bump for later reference ... ;-)
Intresting to watch a total fraud crumble.
Chohan: "He didn't touch you sir, we've got it all on tape.
Seems that Churchill is living in the magical mystical fantasy world that Dan Rather spoke of in his upcoming interview.
His Published Works are being shown to be doubtful & questionable, at best.
His so-called "indian heritage" was Bought & Paid For.
AND NOW, art work done by him(?) is a Fake and a Hoax ?
And the Liberal's who stand with him and defend such Fraud's are them-self's a Clan of Deceit !
Conservatism Needs to make Churchill a "Poster Boy" for other Liberal's who hide in the safety of tenure! Those Liberal's who Insists "WE, the taxpayer", should provide public forums on every campus for American Hate speech & IT'S extremist, to speak AND appeal to our students - ALL in the name of academic freedom (?). They NEED to be Challenged !!! There should be no absolute safeguards !!!!!!
Tenure was put in place years ago for academic protection, BUT it has now been Hijacked, and is being used as a tool for unopposed persuasion .
They can't just fire the Fraud??
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