This has nothing to do with the chick-flick currently in theaters, but we've been talking a lot about copyrights, intellectual property, and technology recently and I was reminded of this article I read about when Gladwell himself was plagiarized and how he handled it.

This is evidence that Dr. Burton and my metaphors in class were not in vain. The transporter is the thing that was used when they said, "Beam me up Scotty". And they made that doing a trick with the camera of glitter and water in a glass. BOOYAH

BYU Prof. David Wiley says this

Interesting piece here