Certain university degrees—especially in the arts and humanities—are often maligned as "rip-offs" or "Mickey Mouse degrees." The argument is that while some degrees lead to high-paying jobs, others ...

The Beatles were quite an original outfit. That originality contributed to their massive international fame, after all. However, the Fab Four were also the subject of a bit of controversy through the ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but in the world of television, originality goes a long way. Case in point — Eric Kripke's "Supernatural." Prior to it becoming a show about two brothers ...

Superhero comics are a medium based on, for lack of a better term, rip-offs. Basically every everything ever created by Marvel and DC Comics is a rip-off of something; stories follow tried and true ...

Last year, the world got a new Lennon-McCartney song, but it wasn't John Lennon or Paul McCartney. Instead, James McCartney, son of Paul and Linda McCartney, got together with Sean Ono Lennon, son of ...