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

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

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

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

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