Filmmaker Claims ‘Kony 2012′ Plagiarized His Work

Filmmaker Chris Abbas took to Reddit yesterday, claiming that Invisible Children took sequences for its “Kony 2012″ video from his film Cassini Mission without proper attribution. Unless Abbas found a way to circumvent Vimeo’s timestamps, it seems pretty clear that he does have a point. Parts of his film are clearly used in the beginning of “Kony 2012,” and toward the very end of the film. Watch here and here.

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