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TOP 8 PLAGIARISM SCANDALS OF ALL TIME
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TOP 8 PLAGIARISM

SCANDALS OF ALL TIME

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Plagiarism Plagiarism is simply taking someone else's work or ideas

and presenting as one's own. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud because it includes both stealing someone else's writing and lying about it afterward. It isn’t done by just procrastinating students or delinquents. Even famous

politicians, writers, artists and educators purposely or accidentally commit plagiarism. Here`s the top 10

plagiarism scandals of all time involving a number of the world’s most well-known publications and individuals.

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Stephen Ambrose

His book was speculated to have been plagiarized from a 1995 book called Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II, by Thomas Childers. Ambrose was harshly criticized, and the scandal was reported many times. He was also charged with four more cases of plagiarism in his other books.

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on his book The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany 

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Michael Bolton

Bolton was involved in a serious plagiarism lawsuit in 1991 when it was discovered to be "stolen" from the 1966 song by the Isley Brothers. He was fined at $5.4 million in 2000 by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals. It was the largest sentences ever made as the result of a music plagiarism case.

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after his 1991 song "Love is a Wonderful Thing"

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Melissa Elias Elias was a former New Jersey school board president who was caught plagiarizing the speech of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen which she gave at a graduation in 2005. The school board forced her to resign but she continued to deny she did anything wrong.

on her commencement address to Madison High School in 2005.

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Pres. Barack Obama He was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. PlagiarismToday.com observed that after comparing Deval’s speech with Obama’s, it was obvious that Obama "used many of the same quotes as well as very similar phrasing." Afterwards, Obama apologized for not giving credit to Deval.

on his speech during the presidential campaign in February 2008

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Maureen DowdDown was put under the limelight when a column she wrote in 2009 column was compared to a column written by TalkingPointsMemo.com editor Josh Marshall the week before. It was reported that two paragraphs were identical except for one minor alteration. Dowd apologized online for the incident and was backed by The Times.

on her May 2009 column in the New York Times

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Kaavya ViswanathanShe was a Harvard sophomore when she was featured in the New York Times for her book but later on was discovered that she plagiarized portions of the novel from two books by Megan McCafferty. Later, Viswanathan apologized, saying that back in high school she was a "huge fan" of McCafferty‘s books.

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her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life

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The Catcher in the Rye sequelIt is known as one of the most iconic books in American literary history. But a sketchy spin-off called Coming Through the Rye written by an anonymous writer "J. D. California“ was produced. J.D. Salinger sued the author and is fighting to have the book banned in the U.S. although it is already being sold in England. The author claims it’s just a parody, while Salinger believes it is plagiarism.

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JAYSON BLAIRBlair’s plagiarism scandal attracted lots of attention after he was found to have "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud” and was known as an unusually committed plagiarist. He began the crimes while working on his college paper, and in 2003, editors checked over 600 of his articles was plagiarized or outright fabricated. He even invented quotes and engineered photographs in support of his writings.

while covering significant news events" for the New York Times

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