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

He is allowed to have been a scholar, and to have understood and practised the dramatic rules; but Dryden proves him to have likewise been an unbounded plagiary.

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

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

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

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

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir