A group of parents have filed a lawsuit against a Montreal-area high school art teacher and his school board after students found their classroom artwork available for purchase on the teacher's personal website last month.An archival screenshot of artwork by students at Westwood Junior High School being displayed for sale on their teacher's website. The parents of 10 students are suing both the school board and the teacher for copyright infringement.
"My daughter loves art, always has been into art, and this year after everything happened, she said to me, 'I don't think I'll do art next year,'" said Liard. "We requested $5,000 per artwork that was infringed," he said, saying there were 31 pieces of plagiarized merchandise per student. Only 10 parents are represented in the lawsuit.According to the lawsuit, Perron assigned his 96 students a project called "Creepy Portrait" in January, in which students drew a portrait of a classmate or themselves inspired by the style of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
"Here we are in a digital age where families and parents are there to scrutinize everything that are looking at … but who would have thought that it should have been the parents scrutinizing the teacher?" DeBellefeuille said.Students from a school in Saint-Lazare, Que., discovered their work online after Googling their teacher's name and visiting his website. The Lester B. Pearson School Board says it's investigating.
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