Here’s a taste. Thought this site was interesting.
Famous examples of plagiarism
- Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism as a young girl for a school composition. Mortified, she determined to have all future compositions screened by her friends before submission.
- According to a Boston University investigation into academic misconduct, Martin Luther King plagiarized approximately one third of his doctoral thesis. He also appropriated others’ text, without credit, for his famous speeches, including "I Have A Dream".
- George Harrison was successfully sued for plagiarizing (though perhaps unconsciously) the Chiffons’ "He’s So Fine" for the melody of his own "My Sweet Lord". http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm
:George later wrote a bitter-lyric song on the subject. Ironically, he also "plagiarized" himself at least once, as the introductory chord for The Beatles‘ I’m Looking Through You is nearly identical to the introductory chord from End of the Line by his later group, the Traveling Wilburys.
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- Senator Joseph Biden was forced to withdraw from the 1988 Democratic Presidential nominations when it was revealed that he had failed a course in law school due to plagiarism. It was also shown that he had copied several campaign speeches, notably those of British Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In both cases he was essentially exonerated. http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/plagiarism.html.
- Popular historian Stephen Ambrose has been criticized for incorporating passages from the works of other authors into many of his books.
- Psychology professor René Diekstra, also well-known as author of popular books, left Leiden University in 1997 after accusations of plagiarism. Proceedings continued as of 2003, with Diekstra contesting a report about him on this matter.
- Alex Haley was permitted to settle out-of-court for $650,000, having admitted that he copied large passages of his novel from The African by Harold Courlander.
You will be surprised at what all is on there.
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