Mr. Perdue, whose book never approached the wild success of Mr. Brown's novel, believes that Mr. Brown copied large portions of the plot of "Daughter of God," the article says.

Xerox further claims that Apple copied substantial portions of its Lisa and Macintosh Finder programs, including the design and appearance of the main application windows, dialogue boxes and menu, and some of the icons used.

I can only conclude that I accidentally confused my manuscript with my notes for my memoir in which I copied large portions of other writers' works, just to see how they were structured.

This was in response to a request on April 6 from the Chinese search engine company Sohu that Google stop distributing its pinyin IME software because it allegedly copied portions from Sohu's own software.

Rather, the companies that make them are hoping to find a niche among library-bound students, traveling executives and engineers and contractors who wish to copy relevant portions of large blueprints.

The Times has since determined that in at least three dozen instances since last October, Mr. Blair fabricated datelines or interviews or copied portions of articles from other publications.

Mr. Duffie copied portions of the tapes onto a cassette.

This software allowed users to copy portions of DVDs onto CDs regardless of whether they were encoded using Content Scramble System ("CSS").

However national libraries in many countries do have a legal right to copy portions of the web under an extension of a legal deposit.

It does appear that there's some kernel of truth to this claim and that the author had copied substantial portions of Elizabeth Goudge's work.