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

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

There is another sort of jay, The number of its legs the same, Which makes of borrow'd plumes display, And plagiary is its name.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander

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

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth