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Last summer, the union added another firm that was created to buy source material for Emmett projects, 50 Feet Movies LLC, to its strike list.

"Open source material has depicted TdA members with a combination of the below tattoos," states the document which appeared in court filings.

"The first principle in the academic world is that you direct your reader to your source material, and that isn't happening here," she said.

The proliferation of synthetic images makes the job of documentarians and researchers — safeguarding the integrity of primary source material, digging through archives, presenting history accurately — even more urgent.

Asked about the lack of transparency in source material, Hogne says in the future he might consider adding links to where he got his information from.