Misappropriation: Injustice With Sexy Results

Unending BE - episode 984983

Misappropriation. The situation where credit is given where credit isn't due, and someone ends up being treated like the origin of something that someone else did.

These situations tend to be caught and corrected, but what if they weren't? What if, impossibly, the incorrect assumptions were taken as fact?

Following the success of "Whatcha Say," Imogen Heap finds everyone thinks she copied her own hook from "Hide and Seek" from Jason Derulo's sample of it in his song. Her only remaining career option: "admit" she's really Jason Derulo's backup singer and dancer, and that her own songs were written and given to her by Derulo.
Australian fashion designer Katie Perry, sued for supposedly infringing on Katy Perry's name brand, must change her own name and alter her business to Katy Perry's desires.
Marilyn Monroe appears in the future... where everyone accuses her of ripping off "Paris Hilton's" style from when Paris launched her Marilyn Monroe inspired perfume.
Carmilla, the female vampire character that heavily inspired Dracula, has her entire history rewritten to make her Dracula's inferior copycat, servant or "fangirl."
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