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

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

But very few really reasonable people will, I think, refuse to agree with me that the only artistic, the only kindly, and the only honest method of quotation is plagiary.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

To draw material from a heterogeneous work—to found, for instance, the play of Coriolanus upon Plutarch's Life—is justifiable: to take from a homogeneous work—to enrich your drama from another man's drama—is plagiary.

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

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