plagiary

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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

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, a Latin verse of, cited, an English poet, his 'Hymn of the Nativity.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

He is allowed to have been a scholar, and to have understood and practised the dramatic rules; but Dryden proves him to have likewise been an unbounded plagiary.

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

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 Smiles, Samuel

Copyright and Copywrong.—The dramatist who dramatises his neighbour's novel against his will, is less a playwright than a plagiary.

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various