plagiariser BrE
plagiarizer AmE

In the second form, the plagiarizer recalls the ideas of other author's as their own.

He was a cheap thief in college, a plagiarizer at Yale.

Weyland gave the first presentation in which he slandered Einstein as a plagiarizer.

The plagiarizer regenerates an idea that was presented earlier, but believes the idea to be an original creation.

The first involves the plagiarizer regenerating a previously seen idea, but believing the idea to be novel.

As a result there is a shortage of top talent for managerial posts and, more critically, the kind of creative minds that can help change Taiwan's image as Asia's biggest plagiarizer of other country's products.

Shakespeare would also have appreciated the appropriation in general, being a skilled plagiarizer himself - practically all his plays are versions of earlier works (including "Comedy of Errors," drawn largely from a Roman comedy, "The Menaechmi").

According to U.S. copyright law, in the absence of a confession, musicians who accuse others of stealing their work must prove "access"-the alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song-and "similarity"-the songs must share unique musical components.

In this case, the plagiarizer correctly recognizes that the idea is from an earlier time, but falsely remembers having been the origin for the idea (or, having lost the specific memory of encountering it in print or conversation, assumes that it "came to" the plagiarizer as an original idea).