It’s payback time.

Raymond Biesinger says he wrote his new book, “9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off: An Informal Self-Defence Guide for Independent Creatives,” for a very simple reason.

“Spite, quite honestly,” he laughs, before adding another purpose. “And tactics. It was a tactical move.

“My goal with the book is to open up the window of possibilities for what people think they can do [to protect their work and their rights],” says the artist, whose images have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Monocle and many other outlets.

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Biesinger, who lives with his family in Quebec, says the initial concept came to him while he was negotiating with an unnamed organization that had used one of his images w

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