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  • AFP/DDP/File - German so-called plastinator Gunther von Hagens poses with a preserved human arm at his "Plastinarium" …

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • This week, German "plastinator" Gunther von Hagens poses with the jumping dancer exhibit in his Body Worlds touring exhibition.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • Perhaps the most influential flayer of human skin was not a bookbinder, shaman, plastinator, or organ dealer but rather one Ed Gein, a diminutive and seemingly unremarkable resident of windswept Plainfield, Wisconsin, population 889.

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • It is an interesting, possibly exam-worthy question: if I skin and preserve a body in the same pose as my rival plastinator, have I infringed his copyright in a sculptural work?

    Archive 2005-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2005

  • It is an interesting, possibly exam-worthy question: if I skin and preserve a body in the same pose as my rival plastinator, have I infringed his copyright in a sculptural work?

    Two great tastes that taste great together Rebecca Tushnet 2005

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