Valentina Petrenko on Wednesday presented a caricature of the staff of the famous French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Ukrainian artist Yuriy Zhuravel’s accusing a Council member of the Federation of plagiarism and intends to file it in court.
MOSCOW, 11 Nov. Member of the Federation Council Valentina Petrenko, accused Ukrainian artist Yuri Referee in plagiarism, believes that the grounds for accusations and trial no.
Petrenko on Wednesday presented a caricature of the staff of the famous French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Earlier this magazine put on their pages two cartoons related to the collapse of the Russian A321 of airline “Kogalymavia”.
Ukrainian artist declared in the media that the authorship of the caricature belongs to him, and the Russian Senator, in his opinion, tried to give pattern for your. He said he will protect your rights in court.
“For trial no, I never said or wrote that this is my picture, so figure no one was assigned”, — said Petrenko.
According to Petrenko, it is only used as an “associative way” pattern, which is freely available on the Internet. “It is as if someone said about plagiarism image of the Madonna,” says the Senator.
She said with the picture wanted to show that the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo “should burn in hell like the people that outraged faith.”
“The figure is nowhere my signature, so this cartoon can not be considered plagiarism” — said Petrenko.
