Name a Famous Plagiarist!

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<p>To start with - - Martin Luther King Jr (doctoral thesis)</p>

<p>and Blair Hornstine (the infamous tutored, litigious valedictorian)</p>

<p>and Elizabeth Paige Laurie (WalMart heiress, USC grad)</p>

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<p>Kaavya Viswanathan.</p>

<p>It was actually a pretty lame book.
But I bet they’re selling for thousands on eBay now.</p>

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<p>MEEEEEE!!!</p>

<p>Jk.</p>

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<p>Stephen Ambrose</p>

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<p>Avril Lavigne. I think I spelled that right…</p>

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<p>Thomas Jefferson (the Declaration of Independence’s preamble)</p>

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<p>MLK plagarized???</p>

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<p>and cheated on his wife too!!!</p>

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<p>Scholars at Stanford discovered the plagiarism in King’s doctoral thesis when examining his papers. “Although King received satisfactory grades for his work at Boston University, his papers displayed little originality. As later analysis would reveal, many of King’s essays, as well as his dissertation, relied upon appropriated words and ideas for which he failed to provide adequate citations. King’s plagiarism escaped detection during his lifetime, and his professors had little reason to suspect him of such, based on his success in the classroom and on written examinations.”
From: <a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/boston.u.html[/url]”>http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/boston.u.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Led Zeppelin, still love their music though.</p>

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<p>Apple’s advertising agency (Intel-powered Mac commercial)
ELO (iffy, they copied some ideas directly from the Beatles)</p>

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<p>Shakespeare :P</p>

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<p>The creators of the bible.</p>

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<p>Vanilla Ice (i don’t care what he says, that beat was the same).</p>

<p>and the guy that wrote Roots stole like 2/3rd directly from a different book.</p>

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<p>oh yea…and</p>

<p>Dan Brown</p>

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<p>Yo mama. /<em>Get pwn3d.</em>/</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3359749[/url]”>http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3359749&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I don’t know how to get the link to work, but this site says that Avril Lavigne denies that she ripped the song off some 70’s band.</p>

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<p>It works! (10 char)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was just reading The Comedy of Errors and comparing it to Menaechmi by Plautus.</p>

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<p>i was going to say: me!!! (Which is true!) I decided not to because someone else already said it.</p>