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

This is a very different thing from the blind plagiary of those who cannot see their own way, and are themselves surprised to find that they have stolen.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.

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

What he had of humorous or passionate, he seems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at least as an imitator.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel