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

One day I found in an English magazine an elaborate article which in effect charged Tennyson with wholesale plagiary from Theocritus.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

An accusation of mere plagiary is made impossible by his openness.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

Ariosto is a plagiary, the most so of all poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

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