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

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

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

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

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

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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