COPENHAGEN ( 2008-03-28 16:13:03 ) :
The Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Prophet Mohammed PBUH outraged Muslims said on Friday that he would press copyright charges against a far-right Dutch MP for reproducing it in his controversial anti-Islam video.
Kurt Westergaard's cartoon was among those that sparked a worldwide outcry and fierce debate about freedom of speech after they were first published in 2005. He said he was bringing the charge against Geert Wilders after the far-right MP published his anti-Islam video online on Thursday.
Wilders' video contains an image of Westergaard's cartoon showing the prophet with a bomb, its fuse burning, protruding from his turban.
"You can't just steal other people's works. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, it's all about copyright," Westergaard told AFP.
"I won't accept my cartoon being taken out of its original context and used in a completely different one."
Westergaard has been in hiding since Danish police in February said they had foiled an assassination attempt against him.
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