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

It is sometimes admitted that Milton was a plagiary, but it is urged in extenuation that his plagiarisms were always reproduced in finer forms.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He rates Scaliger for ignorance because he was evidently under the impression that Cardan was the first to draw a horoscope of Christ, and attacks Cardan chiefly on the score of plagiary.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

For result we found that beyond a doubt the magazinist had "skinned" his article out of Stedman's chapter—in other words, that he had in effect plagiarized his charge of plagiary and the proofs of it.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary