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

Yet the problem does not resolve itself into the simple question whether Pandolfini or Alberti was the plagiary.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

No successful person, perhaps, was ever, in the strict sense, a plagiarist, though charges of plagiary are always brought against everybody, from Virgil to Milton, from Scott to Molière, who attains success. 

From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Lang, Andrew

He rates Scaliger for ignorance because he was evidently under the impression that Cardan was the first to draw a horoscope of Christ, and attacks Cardan chiefly on the score of plagiary.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)