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 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)

Ariosto is a plagiary, the most so of all poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

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 Cox, Kenyon

Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.

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