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Plagiarism
just asking questions
Jan. 17, 2024
Why Bill Ackman’s Case Against Business Insider Is a Fantasy Columbia law professor Edward Klaris explains why the billionaire’s defamation claims don’t hold legal water.
Neri Oxman and Claudine Gay Cases Show We Need New Rules on Plagiarism Bill Ackman helped bring down Gay. Oxman, his wife, is now under attack. This system isn’t working.
By Christopher Sprigman
Claudine Gay Resigns From Harvard Amid New Plagiarism Allegations As controversy continued to swirl around her, Gay announced plans to step down after only six months.
By Matt Stieb
what we know
Dec. 22, 2023
Will Harvard’s Claudine Gay Be Ousted Over Plagiarism Allegations? The university’s board has expressed its unanimous support for the embattled president, but the scandal has only grown.
By Chas Danner
BookTok’s Busy Year: Plagiarism Scandals, Period Drama, and CoHo, Of Course There’s a lot of drama within this very large community, much of which has practical implications for the book world and beyond.
By Meg Zukin
Asghar Farhadi’s Attorney Responds to Accusations of Plagiarism “Ms. Aviv has uncovered a handful of people with complaints that they were not thanked enough.”
By Rebecca Alter
copyright law
Aug. 9, 2022
Taylor Swift Says You Can’t Copy Lyrics You’ve Never Heard The “Shake It Off” singer claims she’s never heard 3LW’s “Playas Gon’ Play” in a lawsuit.
By Zoe Guy
this friggin guy
Aug. 5, 2022
By Rebecca Alter
Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero Plagiarism Lawsuit Awaits Official Verdict A student claims the Iranian director based the film off of a documentary she made in his workshop.
By Justin Curto
Man Who Owns News Outlet Guilty of Plagiarism Michael Bloomberg copied entire sections of his policy platform from various news outlets — despite employing journalists on his campaign.
By Sarah Jones
who’s really that bitch?
Oct. 23, 2019
Lizzo Addresses ‘Truth’ About ‘Truth Hurts’ Plagiarism Allegations “The creator of the tweet is the person I am sharing my success with … not these men.”
By Justin Curto
A Plagiarism Scandal Shakes Up the True-Crime Podcast World Crime Junkie ’s recent troubles bring new scrutiny to an often unchecked genre.
By Nicholas Quah
Idris Elba Denies ‘Offensive and Troubling’ Claims of Plagiarism Over Play Tree Sarah Henley and Tori Allen-Martin allege their contributions remain unacknowledged despite working on the production for four years.
By Halle Kiefer
Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Accused of Plagiarism After initially denying the allegations, Abramson tweeted, “I take seriously the issues raised and will review the passages in question.”
By Matt Stieb
2020 elections
Jan. 10, 2019
Biden’s Baggage Could Be a Heavy Lift in 2020 Problems with Biden’s record go far beyond the 1994 crime bill and Anita Hill. His longevity in politics is a treasure trove for his foes.
By Ed Kilgore
appropriation
Dec. 17, 2018
New Plagiarism Accusations Spark a Twitter Debate on ‘After’ Poems Another poet accused of theft — or is it just a centuries-old form of homage?
By Kat Rosenfield
Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist After recent scandals in the poetry world, the Cut spoke to three women with a history of plagiarism.
By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
Poetry Twitter Erupts Over a Plagiarist in Their Midst Ailey O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.
By Kat Rosenfield
So You Want to Accuse Someone of Stealing Your Joke In a business where you’re only as good as your material, joke theft is one of comedy’s high crimes. Just make sure the joke’s not on you.
By Adam Frucci
Was Michael Jackson a Plagiarist? “Michael stole a lot of stuff. He stole a lot of songs,” says Quincy Jones.
By Jared T. Miller
Sheriff David Clarke Plagiarized Parts of His Master’s Thesis: Report The controversial Milwaukee sheriff, who says he was tapped to join the Department of Homeland Security, denies the CNN report.
By Jen Kirby
Neil Gorsuch Accused of Plagiarizing Parts of His Book and an Academic Article The White House called it a “last-second smear,” but some experts said that at the very least, his book contains sloppy attributions.
By Margaret Hartmann
Following Plagiarism Reports, Monica Crowley Won’t Join Trump Administration The former Fox News talking head will not join Michael Flynn at the National Security Council.
By Adam K. Raymond
trump transition
Jan. 7, 2017
Report: Trump Adviser Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her 2012 Best Seller CNN has found more than 50 instances in which she lifted passages or phrases from other sources.
By Chas Danner
Led Zeppelin Wins ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Plagiarism Trial The band was accused of lifting the song’s intro from “Taurus” by Spirit.
By Nate Jones
Russell Wilson Copy-Pasted His Love Note for Ciara If you can find it via Google, so can everyone else.
By Brian Feldman
coincidence?
Dec. 8, 2015
Did Adele Rip Off This Kurdish Singer? (Probably Not) Some fans say “A Million Years Ago” resembles Ahmet Kaya’s “Acilara Tutunmak (Clinging to Pain).”
By Nate Jones
The Fat Jew on Stealing Jokes: ‘I Have Never Done That’ It’s been a bad week for Josh Ostrovsky AKA “The Fat Jew” since the comedy community doubled down on exposing him as a hacky joke thief, and […]
By Megh Wright
Comedy vs. The Fat Jew The day of reckoning has finally arrived for joke plagiarist Josh Ostrovsky AKA “The Fat Jew.” If you’re not familiar with Ostrovsky, he’s an […]
By Megh Wright
saturday night live
May 11, 2015
Saturday Night Live Accused of Plagiarizing Drawing Muhammed SketchThey are definitely similar, but does that mean it was plagiarized?
By Jesse David Fox
The Science of ‘Accidental’ Joke-Stealing and Plagiarism Experiments show why it isn’t always the joke stealer’s fault.
By Douwe Draaisma
Is This the Most Plagiarized Joke of All Time? A few years ago I was flipping through Twitter and saw this joke:
Those first two guys who thought Superman was a bird or a plane, what were […]
By Casey Gullickson
social psychology
Jan. 27, 2015
Sam Smith and the Science of ‘Accidental Plagiarism’ Stealing stuff without knowing you’re stealing it is more common than you might realize.
By Melissa Dahl
scandal-stained wretches
Nov. 11, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
Did Hugo Boss Plagiarize the xx? Their record label, Young Turks, seems to think so.
By Anna Silman
ink-stained wretches
Sept. 30, 2014
By Margaret Hartmann
scandal-stained wretches
Sept. 6, 2014
By Caroline Bankoff
N.Y. Times Investigating Wikipedia Plagiarism The Paper of Record is investigating its own case of low-level copying.
By Joe Coscarelli
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