 Ellen G. White's status as a modern day prophet has often been criticized.A common criticism of Ellen White, widely popularized by Walter T. Rea, Ronald Numbers and others, is that she plagiarized material from other authors.A Roman Catholic lawyer, Vincent L. Ramik, undertook a study of Ellen G. White's writings during the early 1980s, and concluded that they were "conclusively unplagiaristic," although the report itself was called "Memorandum of Law Literary Property Rights 1790–1915" and discussed "copyright infringement/piracy" according to the law of the land and time.