plagiary

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 Kenyon Cox

On a famous occasion Charles Reade drew a line between plagiary and justifiable borrowing.

From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

But here, while writing about plagiarism, I have been myself a plagiary; and it shall not remain without acknowledgment, having suffered somewhat in that sort myself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

More; the farewell of which may be our author's to his plagiary, Vale, More! et moriam tuam gnaviter defende.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan

At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

And thus he still, new plagiaries seeking,   Reversed ventriloquism's trick, For, 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking,   'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

These gentlemen are undoubtedly the first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation, by stealing from a man's works in his own life-time, and out of a public print.'

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber