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

They are fond of quoting a saying of Gauguin's that "one must be either a revolutionist or a plagiary"; but can any one tell these revolutionists apart?

From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Cox, Kenyon

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

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

I resolved to attack his fame, and found some passages in cursory reading, which gave me hopes of stigmatizing him as a plagiary.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel