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

Copyright and Copywrong.—The dramatist who dramatises his neighbour's novel against his will, is less a playwright than a plagiary.

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various

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

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Why, the ditty's all borrowed; 'tis Horace's: hang him, plagiary!

From The Poetaster by Jonson, Ben

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 Gilfillan, George