plagiarized songs, etc.

One especially interesting area of copyright infringement is music. There are TONS of cases of people being sued for copying (plagiarizing) other people's songs. Here are some samples.

• Timbaland
  Avril Lavigne (she fights back)
  Madonna (she lost)
  Michael Jackson 1
  Michael Jackson 2
  Michael Jackson 3
  Robbie Williams
  "How Deep Is Your Love" (The BeeGees)
  Celine Dion
  "My Sweet Lord" (George Harrison)
  "Chronicles of Plagiarism in Indian Film Music"
  
  
• Other cases of allegedly plagiarized pop songs:
  http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=plagiarism+song&btnG=Search&meta=
  Mahalo.com
  
  
• The article on plagiarism at Wikipedia has examples at
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
  
  
• Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project provides descriptions of many cases of lawsuits involving alleged copyright infringement (not all the complainants won) --
  http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/song.html
  
  
• People have posted YouTube files showing similarities between songs (not all of them have gone to court)--
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryf0aG0X73g
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFdtntKPDYk
  Do you agree they're copies?
  
  
• How to avoid plagiarism in music (video)
  
  
• Writers and publishers in Canada tried to sue Staples for copyright infringment for allowing the public to use their photocopying services without controling what they were copying --
  http://www.thestar.com/article/276793