unconscious plagiarism

unconscious plagiarism
Using the literary work of another in one's own work without realizing that it is actually the work of another, the ideas and concepts used having been implanted in the mind by a previous and forgotten study made of the work of the other person. Anno: 23 ALR2d 341.

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