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17 A Few Famous Plagiarism Cases

Take a look at a few real-life cases to get an idea of what can happen if you plagiarize, both inside and outside of the academic environment. As you will see, plagiarizing can have academic, professional, and even legal consequences (because of copyright infringement).

Click on each name to find out what happened.

 

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Academic Integrity at East Central University © 2022 by Vivian Eldridge and Shawna Bishop is adapted from Academic Integrity at Tulsa Community College by Tulsa Community College and Academic Integrity by Ulrike Kestler, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Academic Integrity at East Central University Copyright © 2022 by Vivian Eldridge and Shawna Bishop is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.