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Oil painter's prize-winning canvas looks an awful lot like another artist's photo

Jeff Dieschburg is a Luxembourgish artist whose strikingly-modeled oil paintings quickly brought him a little fortune and a lot of fame. His "Turandot", exhibited at the Strassen Stroossen Culture Center, won a €1,500 prize and was presented to Luxembourg's Princess Stéphanie. But there's a problem with it, one that became apparent as news of his talent spread: it's virtually identical to a photograph by Jingna Zhang, but for an earring...
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The Strassen Commune deleted its Instagram post announcing Turandot's prize, but did not contact Zhang, she says. Instead, Dieschburg himself emailed her after her tweet went viral. And not to apologize, either, but to lecture her about copyright.