copycats Watch: Striking, er, similarities between Duke student's 2022 commencement speech and Harvard student's speech from 2014 David Pescovitz
plagiarism Does Dua Lipa's "Levitating" infringe another song? Only if pop music began in 2017. Rob Beschizza
amateurs plagiarize Academic paper on language colonization turns out to have stolen its language Thom Dunn
plagiarism Snopes co-founder revealed as serial plagiarist, planned to fill site with "traffic-generating junk" Rob Beschizza
academic fraud "Tortured" phrases used to fool plagiarism detectors now infest scientific papers Rob Beschizza
copycat Principal busted for plagiarizing another principal's reflections on the pandemic year. Twice. David Pescovitz
russian academy of sciences More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after "bombshell" report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct Cory Doctorow
#WarRoomLogoContest Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company Cory Doctorow
florida male News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect Rob Beschizza
cut and paste High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech David Pescovitz
text mining Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation" Cory Doctorow
what a coincidence Universities fought unionization's 'one-size-fits-all' using identical arguments Cory Doctorow