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

Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages, and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary?

From Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various

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

From The Poetaster by Jonson, Ben

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

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

No successful person, perhaps, was ever, in the strict sense, a plagiarist, though charges of plagiary are always brought against everybody, from Virgil to Milton, from Scott to Molière, who attains success. 

From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Lang, Andrew