: Can my cousin copyright his world population cartogram? My cousin made a cartogram depicting world population in microsoft paint. It became quite popular and he was contacted by the author

My cousin made a cartogram depicting world population in microsoft paint.

It became quite popular and he was contacted by the author of an earlier world population cartogram.

The author of the earlier cartogram insisted that my cousin's work violated his copyright. My cousin acquiesced and listed the earlier author as the copyright holder of the newer map.

It seems wrong to me. My cousin's work seems original. But the lawyer at his university said that it is not. Who is right?

Edit: I'm looking for general thoughts and information based on personal experience. Obviously the question is ultimately a legal one and requires a lawyers input.

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This is a general comment that is too long for a comment:

You can only ask these questions from your lawyer. Not the universitys or aybody elses lawyer. The reason is the other lawyers are looking for other interests. The university lawyer is looking for the universitys interests.

Since no one here is your lawyer our advice is as good as the universitys. Bit seeems to me the university lawyer was good at resolving the issue from universitys standpoint by minimizing his workload.

Get a Lawyer of your own. Its not that expensive. Other than this ot is off topic.

By the way arent you breaking copyright by showing those pictures?

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