Read more plagiarism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1013/plagiarism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:39:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71474/shakespeare-didnt-work-alone-says-computer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe computer program is called “Pl@giarism,” but no one is suggesting the Bard cribbed from others—not yet, at least. Researchers used the software, developed to spot cheating scholars, to take a look at The Reign of King Edward III , an unattributed 1596 play that has recently been added to...http://www.newser.com/story/71474/shakespeare-didnt-work-alone-says-computer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 12 Oct 2009 11:28:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69172/jessica-seinfeld-wins-cookbook-copycat-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA federal judge in New York has tossed out a suit claiming that a cookbook by Jerry Seinfeld's wife plagiarized a rival's book. Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious , like Missy Chase Lapine's The Sneaky Chef , shows parents how to sneak vegetables into their kids' food—an idea nobody can copyright, the...http://www.newser.com/story/69172/jessica-seinfeld-wins-cookbook-copycat-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 9:24:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67375/disgraced-reporter-jayson-blair-now-a-life-coach.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer journalist Jayson Blair knows his new profession—life coach—smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline. "People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, who’s best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of the New...http://www.newser.com/story/67375/disgraced-reporter-jayson-blair-now-a-life-coach.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Aug 2009 11:21:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66063/twilight-scribe-accused-of-plagiarism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwilight author Stephenie Meyer is being accused of ripping off another vampire book, TMZ reports. Jordan Scott claims the series’ fourth installment, Breaking Dawn , bears a “striking and substantial similarity” to her 2006 book The Nocturne , with both including a post-wedding sex scene, a doomed pregnancy, and the death of...http://www.newser.com/story/66063/twilight-scribe-accused-of-plagiarism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65797/scientists-retract-paper-touting-sperm-from-stem-cells.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA paper by British scientists on the creation of synthetic human sperm had to be retracted from the journal Stem Cell and Development , AFP reports. The paper, which reported the revolutionary creation of sperm from stem cells, included text written by another scientist, who was not credited. The retraction is...http://www.newser.com/story/65797/scientists-retract-paper-touting-sperm-from-stem-cells.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62714/wired-editor-plagiarizes-wikipedia-in-new-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Virginia Quarterly Review has found almost a dozen plagiarized passages in Chris Anderson’s upcoming book Free , a book that, ironically, is all about free content. Most of the passages were cribbed verbatim from Wikipedia, while another was from a professor’s personal website, and yet another from another book. In...http://www.newser.com/story/62714/wired-editor-plagiarizes-wikipedia-in-new-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 10:39:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62619/woman-sues-hasselbeck-over-cookbook-plagiarism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA woman who sent Elisabeth Hasselbeck a cookbook to help deal with an autoimmune disorder now claims The View co-host pirated the ideas for her own tome, the Boston Herald reports. Self-published author Susan Hassett’s federal lawsuit claims she sent Living With Celiac Disease to Hasselbeck in 2008, and that...http://www.newser.com/story/62619/woman-sues-hasselbeck-over-cookbook-plagiarism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Jun 2009 15:12:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61267/palin-lawyer-blasts-plagiarism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSarah Palin's attorney has ripped charges by a Huffington Post blogger that she plagiarized phrases from a Newt Gingrich article. Palin "repeatedly lifted" Gingrich's wording when she introduced Ronald Reagan's son in Anchorage last week, wrote Geoffrey Dunn, who's writing a book on Palin. But Palin's lawyer said she properly...http://www.newser.com/story/61267/palin-lawyer-blasts-plagiarism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Jun 2009 4:31:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59599/bob-dylan-teen-plagiarist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWas the young Bob Dylan a plagiarist? A piece that Christie’s auction house has been touting as Dylan’s first known poem turns out to be the lyrics to a country song by the late Hank Snow, Reuters reports. A 16-year-old Dylan submitted the pilfered verses, which tell the sad tale...http://www.newser.com/story/59599/bob-dylan-teen-plagiarist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 12:17:25 CDT