Dec 8th, 2008 · This past summer, you might have found it impossible to avoid the string-saturated "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. Former Deep Purple guitarist Joe Satriani thinks it sounds remarkably similar to his song, "If I Could Fly" and has sued for copyright infringement.
Mar 31st, 2008 · Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio were determined to uphold standards at their school. They wrote an honor code that discouraged both cheating and plagiarizing. But they weren't going to waste a lot of time writing the darn thing themselves. The wording of a draft of the honor code appears to match the honor code at Brigham Young University. The student in charge of the project says the lack of a proper citation was just an oversight.
Jan 21st, 2008 · In 2005, nature writer Paul Tolme wrote an article about the endangered black-footed ferrets disappearing from the North American grasslands. In 2008, he was surprised to find that his descriptions of the small mammals had been reproduced in a steamy story of forbidden love between a pioneer woman and a Native American chief.
Apr 28th, 2006 · The coming-of-age novel by Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard sophomore, has been recalled from bookstores after numerous passages were revealed to have been plagiarized. Karen Holt, deputy editor of Publishers Weekly, says withdrawing a book is not unprecedented, but it's extremely rare. Melissa Block talks with Holt.
Apr 25th, 2006 · Kaavya Viswanathan, a novelist who is a Harvard sophomore, is accused of plagiarizing from young adult fiction in her recent novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. Melissa Block talks with David Mehegan of The Boston Globe. The charges first surfaced in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
Apr 7th, 2006 · A British judge is expected to deliver his verdict on whether author Dan Brown plagiarized the work of two historians in his novel The Da Vinci Code. Steve Inskeep talks to Rob Gifford.
Mar 20th, 2006 · Closing arguments are heard in the lawsuit against Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. Brown is accused of plagiarism by co-authors of the nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Katherine Rushton of The Book Seller Magazine talks with Robert Siegel.
Mar 13th, 2006 · Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code gives testimony in a plagiarism lawsuit filed by co-authors of The Holy Book and the Holy Grail. Both books have had a sales surge since the trial began. Katherine Rushton of The Book Seller magazine talks with Michele Norris.