Plagiarist - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: plagiaristPlagiarist, or Plagiary
Plagiarist, or Plagiary, one who publishes the thoughts or writings of another as his own; if thoughts only, not expressed in the same or substantially the same words, there is not breach of copyright. See PIRACY OF WORKS....
plagiarize
plagiarize -rized -riz·ing [from plagiary plagiarist, from Latin plagiarius, literally, kidnapper, from plagium netting of game, kidnapping, from plaga net] vt : to copy and pass off (the expression of ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's work) without crediting the source [the book contained plagiarized material "Smith v. Little, Brown & Co., 265 F. Supp. 451 (1965)"] vi : to present as new and original an idea or work derived from an existing source pla·gia·rism [-ri-zəm] n pla·gia·rist [-rist] n ...
Copyist
A copier a transcriber an imitator a plagiarist...
Plagiarist
One who plagiarizes or purloins the words writings or ideas of another and passes them off as his own a literary thief a plagiary...
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