I bet he won’t get a refund from the Ward Churchill School of Art either...
You know, as little as I like or respect anyone involved in this entire thing. I think he changed Way more than enough to call it an original. he dropped some facial features, changed the shape of shadows. I am fairly certain that if you overlayed the two images they wouldn’t be a dead on tracing of most of it.
Credit for the photographers reference material should be given obviously.
That being said as an amateur artist, and a conservative,,,I hope they make him a little uncomfortable :)