Pervasiveness of Plagiarism

  • James Cameron was sued by Harlan Ellison and was defeated later after the latter claimed that Cameron’s film “The Terminator” is a plagiarized work from the two episodes of Ellison for “Demon With A Glass Hand” and “Soldier”.
  • The widow of Bram Stoker sued the producers of the 1922 film “Nosferatu”. This is because the widow claimed that the movie is an unauthorized adaption of her husband’s novel “Dracula” Most copies of the film was destroyed yet some copies still exist.
  • Blair Hornstine, a student of Moorestown Township, New Jersey, was not allowed to be admitted in Harvard University on June 2003 when she was found out to submit articles of famous people’s speeches like those of Bill Clinton to a local newspaper and claim it as her own.
  • There are even more instances that are related to plagiarism that are not mentioned in these list.

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