1. The composer Kennosuke Suemura also allegedly plagiarised Warcraft II in Super Robot Wars W. However, there have been no reports of legal action being taken.

2. Submissions must be your own work. Reproduced and plagiarised works are not acceptable.

3. Since the British government had plagiarised an article I had written in 2003 and used that material to justify a war against my native Iraq, I faced numerous accusations of being a spy.

4. More than 30 per cent of submissions to some of these journals contain plagiarised material, according to one study.

5. Last year, The New York Times suffered the humiliation of having to acknowledge in print that one of its young reporters, Jayson Blair, had plagiarised and fabricated stories.

6. Set an Example If you download pirated MP3 files, don't be surprised when your child's teacher calls you in for a conference about plagiarised homework.

7. This impression was reinforced further in March when the dean of Durham University's business school in the UK, Tony Antoniou, was fired for having plagiarised academic work 20 years earlier.

8. I remembered that list of movies Tony said he plagiarised to demonstrate he was mentally ill.