plagiarist
Definitions
A person who uses the words or ideas of another person as if they were their own.
Someone who commits the act of literary or artistic theft.
Examples
The professor immediately recognized the student as a plagiarist after discovering that the essay was copied word-for-word from an online source.
Being labeled a plagiarist effectively ended the author's career and destroyed his reputation in the literary community.
Synonyms
pirate copycat literary thief appropriator intellectual property thief counterfeiter stealer of ideas