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Top 10 Famous Plagiarists
Here are ten insane cases of plagiarism. Included on this list is a Beatle, R&B singers and a political commentator from CNN.
10. Madonna Constantine
Plagiarism: “Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings.”
During her tenure as a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, this African-American professor published a book called “Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings.” A black teacher writing about racism among teachers. Right from the start, that spells trouble.
As soon as the book hit the stands, indian co-worker Suniya Luthar recognised it as the book project she was still working on. A project on which she asked the Black Madonna to do some minor work on, since she is a member of a visible minority of some sort.
9. Fawcett Publications
Plagiarism: Captain Marvel (Shazam) on Superman
Content: Tell how DC became pissed off only when Shazam outsold Superman. Because yeah, for some reasons, the kids identified more with 12 years old Billy Batson who could tranform into a Supermanersatz Captain Marvel, than 30 something kryptonian Clark Kent becoming 30 something Superman. And also, that since DC bought Captain Marvel, they just can’t seem to get any Captain Marvel series to work. And the fact that Marvel Comic trademarked the name “Captain Marvel” when DC wasn’t looking, which forbids DC to publish any comic named “Captain Marvel”
8. Enrico Dieckmann + Henrik Galeen
Plagiarism: Nosferatu on Dracula
Content: 1921. Enrico Dieckmann wants to make a film about Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Bram Stoker’s heirs say no. Enrico Dieckmann hires Henrik Galeen to write a movie adaptation of Dracula. He did, only changing the names, and dropping characters off the story. This was the first and last Prana Film, since the company declared bankruptcy after Stoker’s estate sued for copyright infringement, and won. Today, Nosferatu is still seen as the best Dracula adaptation ever, and director FW Murnau is praised as a genius. But since they put all of their time, genius and energies on a work they did not own, they lost it all.
7. Senator Joseph Biden
Plagiarism: His 1988 elections speech on a speech by British labor Leader Neil Kinnock
Content: Biden was a candidate in the 1988 Democratic US Presidential nominations. First, Biden’s adversaries exhumed a long forgotten story about Biden failing a law school course on legal methodology in 1965 due to plagiarism. Biden tried to dismiss the story as a misunderstanding, for he was young and simply misunderstood the need to cite sources carefully. Then, he went back to his campain, by giving the very same speech Neil Kinnock gave in the UK, about their ancestors working 12 hours a day in coal mines and than coming up to play football. Biden was forced to withdraw.
6. Marie-Pier Côté
Plagiarism:Laura l’Immortelle
Content: In 2007, French Canadian editor Les Intouchables proudly launched Laura l’Immortelle, the first book of a junior literary genius they discovered. At age 12, when most girls struggle between their new interest in boys and their fear of catching cooties from them, Marie-Pier shat a 160 pages science-fiction novel. What was it about? Who cares!? We’re talking about a 12 years old writing a 160 pages science fiction novel, for chrissake. In an era when teens can barely write more than text messages, that’s enough to make it newsworty.
Suspicions of foul play began to rise when some people started noticing similarities between the novel and the Highlander movies. Little details, like, oh, the theme, the set-up, the whole universe and pretty much everything else. Doubts remained, until some unsung genius had the idea to Google a sentence taken from the novel… Which lead him directly to “De cendres et de vent,” a Highlander fan fiction written by a resident of France named Frédéric Jeorge. Marie-Pier just copy-pasted the whole story, changed names including her own as the author, and presented it to the editor as her original work.
5. George Harrison
Plagiarism: My Sweet Lord on He’s So Fine. By Chiffon
Content: Recap of plagiarism+lawsuit. Joke about how George was the unlucky Beatle, only able to make hit song related to other bands (like said lawsuit, or “When we were Fab” in ’88, about the time when he was a Beatle) or only making the headlines when something bad was happening to
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