plagiary

The case follows that of the family of Marvin Gaye successfully suing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for plagiary on their hit Blurred Lines.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2015

To draw material from a heterogeneous work—to found, for instance, the play of Coriolanus upon Plutarch's Life—is justifiable: to take from a homogeneous work—to enrich your drama from another man's drama—is plagiary.

From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Ravenscroft thus proceeds against Mr. Dryden: 'That I may maintain the character of impartial, to which I pretend, I must pull off his disguise, and discover the politic plagiary that lurks under it.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber

He was not only a professed imitator of HORACE, but a learned plagiary of all the others.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber

Yet the very few novels I have read, of later publications, incapacitates me again for detecting plagiary, or for making such comparisons as proper criticism may demand.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles

These gentlemen are undoubtedly the first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation, by stealing from a man's works in his own life-time, and out of a public print.'

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber

And thus he still, new plagiaries seeking,   Reversed ventriloquism's trick, For, 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking,   'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake