In the piece, Gladwell asked, “Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?”
CNN presenter Fareed Zakaria has been hit by another wave of plagiarism accusations.
In November 2013, Driscoll was accused of plagiarism by radio talk show host Janet Mefferd.
Dorothy Parker once noted that “the only ‘ism’ Hollywood cares about is plagiarism.”
To help make a case, the suit attempts to establish both opportunity and a pattern of plagiarism on the part of the band.
She borrowed it now in her hour of need, and laughed, unconscious of her plagiarism.
But it was when they charged him with plagiarism that his critics hit him on the raw.
The two match-boxes were just alike, but neither was a plagiarism.
Randal Leslie might be mean in his plagiarism, but he turned the useless into use.
Besides all this, there is the painful question of plagiarism.
1620s, from -ism + plagiary (n.) "plagiarist, literary thief" (1590s), from Latin plagiarius "kidnapper, seducer, plunderer, one who kidnaps the child or slave of another," used by Martial in the sense of "literary thief," from plagiare "to kidnap," plagium "kidnapping," from plaga "snare, hunting net," perhaps from PIE *plag- (on notion of "something extended"), from root *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta).
Literary theft. Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.
Note: Similar theft in music or other arts is also called plagiarism.
