History Main / PlagiarismInFiction

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': Being another detective series, it also deals with people being murdered over stolen ideas.

* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', "tears" to alternate universes sometimes open, letting you see the contents of another universe, often at a different time. Musician Albert Fink found some tears that had music playing, and readily claimed their lyrics and melody as his own while making them more like the kind of music played in the early 1900s setting. The result are ragtime versions of songs that in our universe won't be written until decades after that universe's time including [[Music/TheBeachBoys "God Only Knows"]] and [[Music/TearsForFears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World".]]

* WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'s friend Francine plagiarizes a school report off not-Wikipedia, not knowing what plagiarism is until after she hands it in. Once older sister Catherine finds out what she did, she enlightens her and tell her to tell Mr. Ratburn. Francine has a nightmare, and she does go to confess, at which point he tells her to do it again for a lower grade. She gets a "B", then kisses the paper. Arthur is confused at her pleasure, but she's happy because she earned the "B".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Harmony Steals The Show", Harmony was accused of plagiarism when his accuser presented the argument before a judge that he wrote an original symphony for the Smurf to use as his own under a signed contract. Harmony was cleared of that charge when it is revealed that his accuser had plagiarized pieces of other musicians' works to create his "original" symphony.

** In another story, Jeremy "borrows" his mother's credit card in order to buy an AP essay off from the internet. Not only does Jeremy get a zero on the essay and a twenty-minute lecture after he confesses to his teacher, but said credit card also ends up hacked and he's grounded for two weeks by his parents.

* In D3's detective attorney game ''The Trial'', one of the cases [[TheHero Momota]] has to solve is about Paul, a fictional character from ShowWithinAShow anime ''The Stars'', who is almost identical to Kasuga, the mascot from the Kasugaya sweets shop. Momota the defense attorney must prove that the company who made the anime has plagiarized the shop mascot.

* Comes up in ''Series/DeathInParadise'' in the episode "The Secret of the Flame Tree." [[spoiler:It turns out Sylvie Baptiste did not, in fact, write ''The Flame Tree''; it was her mentally ill sister, Lizzie. Sylvie stole the manuscript knowing Lizzie was too sick to ever pursue publishing.]]

** And ironically, the elder Meyers was a victim too, it seems, the U.S. Post Office having stolen his "Maniac Mailman" idea for the Mr. Zip design.
** "Fraudcast News": Millhouse, who has joined the staff of Lisa's newspaper, ''The Red Dress Press'', admits he fabricated and copied content from other newspapers. The story he wrote about Bagdad was also a fraud. He was in ''Basra''.

** Afterwards, Mike assigns the robots to write essays on cheating. Gypsy's essay is: "Cheating is bad. Richard Baseheart is good." Crow T. Robot's essay is copied verbatim from Gypsy's. The remaining host segments for the the episode involve the rest of the cast trying to decide how Crow should be punished, with Tom Servo and Gypsy pushing for [[DisproportionateRetribution extreme violence]].

* In ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox Oxventure Presents Blades in the Dark'']], [[TheSmartGuy Edvard Lumiere]] accuses public innovator Amadeus Astor of stealing his ideas and not having a single original idea in his life. [[spoiler:It turns out this is NotHyperbole and Amadeus stole a lot of Edvard's research ''and most unknown inventors in the city''.]]

* In 'Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain'', Larry's ex-wife Margaret gets rich publishing a novel he wrote ad if it was her own work.
* In 'Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', the reason Spencer and Fridge are in detention is they were caught plagiarizing. Spencer wrote a paper for Fridge to turn in, but it was so similar to his previous papers, the teacher recognized it.

* In ''Series/SexEducation'', Maeve runs a side hustle writing essays for her classmates. She's a little ''too'' good at them, and gets in hot water when Adam enters the one she wrote for him into an essay contest and wins. Her teacher, Ms. Sands, decides that her being expelled would be a waist of her intellect, and decides to mentor her, eventually convincing her to join the school quiz team, which she excels at.

* In ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'', Yozora does this in a rewrite of her screenplay for the club's movie in episode 9 of Season 2. While Maria mentions at the end of episode 8 that the story seems familiar, its not until episode 9 and after they've already shot some scenes that Kate points out to Kodaka the similarities with an obscure movie. He then checks the movie and finds out their film was a shot-for-shot remake of that obscure film. Yozora is forced to kneel while wearing a sign saying she plagiarized, and the club goes with Sena's script which she wrote as a backup just in case Yozora's script didn't work out.

* This is one of the main sources of wealth for Navarone in ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman''. Though it should be noted that as the original creators are all dead and the art doesn't already exist in the world, he is providing a service by transcribing it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', Ichiryusai Madarame is an artist who steals his students' work to pass off as his own. Fittingly, he represents Vanity of the SevenDeadlySins. In a case of GameplayAndStoryIntegration, this is also reflected in his boss battle. Several of Madarame's skills are the same as your own skills, only with fancier names (Thunderclap = Zionga, Flame Dance = Agilao, Silent Snowscape = Bufula, etc.). The best example being his special attack Madara-Megido, that unlike the real megido spells, does pitiful damage (~10 at a point where your characters' HP are above 200). This truly cements Madarame's creations are pale, inferior imitations of other works.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': In one sidequest, Sir Hammerlock shamelessly asks you to find his dead boyfriend's notes so that he can plagiarize them for his own manuscript.