The thing that kills me about the whole scandal is that if you look at famous American comic illustrations such as Greg Land, they obviously and blatantly copy photographs nonstop and take no shame in doing so. Why Nitta-sensei had such a hard time I have no idea, it's really annoying. Greg Land is particularly egregious, just go look at the examples (http://jimsmashextended.blogspot.com/2008/07/greg-land-tracing-swiping-recycling.html).