This is the second day of a one-day story, but I'll pile on as well.

Kaavya Viswanathan admitted she borrowed, or rather "internalized" portions of other books for her own book. But unconscious plagiarism may still be plagiarism. At least that's what the court said in the case of George Harrison and the Chiffons.

...under the law, infringement of copyright [...] is no less so even though subconsciously accomplished.

Here's more on the Harrison case, in which he had to pay out more than a million dollars. As for Viswanathan, from reading the details of the suspect passages, I'd say she has an incredible internal memory.