plagiaristic

Aged seven, she repurposed a melody from a kids' TV show and passed it off as her own, a sort-of plagiaristic first venture into writing.

It’s troubling, of course, to be reminded that the rewards for creativity are often misallocated — particularly in today’s plagiaristic world of social media, with its immense powers of narrative acceleration.

How can a band so slavishly derivative — and sometimes downright plagiaristic — be simultaneously considered so innovative and influential?

When he died in 1938, Capek was working on this bleak polyphonic novel about a half-crazed, compulsively plagiaristic composer.

"Lots of people online have talked about plagiarism, but it seems from the legal side that the matter is quite clear - at root there is no plagiaristic behavior," he said.