Plagiarism.

[Truhan]

Post all known instances of plagiarism in this thread. I'll start.

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And I guess I'll post the classic one we all know about too:

[Chrysanth]

An interesting idea for a thread topic, but I'll bite. I can think of two off the top of my head that I've heard people talk about. Both of them are literary cases of plagiarism, actually! The first of which was when Alex Haley's famous book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, was accused of copying from Harold Courlander's The Africans - a claim that seemed like a weird one since this was supposedly a non-fiction story of sorts about Alex Haley's ancestors. An out-of-court settlement for $600,000+ was reached on it and supposedly Haley would go on to admit publicly that he copied aspects from The Africans. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/03/books ... 32593.html

I've always heard famous accusations that Aldous Huxley ripped off George Orwell when he wrote Brave New World. And there will always be theories about whether Orson Welles straight up took credit for the script to Citizen Kane but those are sort of insubstantial the last time I checked and read up on it. Hopefully I didn't completely miss the point of this thread though, this is just what immediately came to mind when I thought of plagiarism though.