I agree that Jon appears to be in the wrong here. But that would imply that he intentionally ripped off a bunch of artists, then decided to go to court over it

I agree that Jon appears to be in the wrong here. But that would imply that he intentionally ripped off a bunch of artists, then decided to go to court over it (and almost definitely lose) and to start a witch hunt by pushing a blatantly false account of the whole thing in what I'm sure will amount to libel. That's almost as crazy as the possibility that his work was independently ripped off by multiple artists. I haven't thought that much about this -- is there a scenario I'm missing? The situation really makes no sense at all.