Sentence examples for literary theft from inspiring English sources

2. The crime of literary theft.

Sophisticated software packages and search databases are being touted around to help detect literary theft.

The controversy over Ms. Randall's novelistic response to "Gone With the Wind" raises questions of literary theft and property rights.

Mr. McDade, the author of a previous book about literary theft, is the curator of rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Since the revelations of plagiarism by the popular historians Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin, commentators have been wrestling with the nature of literary theft.

But the debate underscores how lines blur when considering literary theft and acceptable homage, and when the deployment of clichéd plot conventions becomes an egregious use of another writer's work and ideas.

And in this context, it is fitting that Peter and Alice should be about literary identity theft: an exploration of the unhappy notoriety of being written about as – and overtaken by – a fictional character.

"You can't claim that Grand Theft Auto has literary merit," they say.

Was the story inspired by a particular work in the show, or were you trying to imagine a parallel for that kind of theft in the literary world?

In the first case, Vitruvius (257 180 B.C.E). is said to have revealed intellectual property theft during a literary contest in Alexandria.

Sensing an opportunity to uncover front-page-worthy fraud, journalists armed with Post-It notes -- and anonymous tips about the thefts -- have turned into literary gumshoes, painstakingly combing through books in the library stacks.