Plagio

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Plagio is an Italian term deriving from the Latin "plagium".^{[not verified in body]} The Italian criminal code defined it as "Whoever submits a person to his own power, in order to reduce her to a state of subjection, is punished with imprisonment for five to fifteen years". Such a crime has not been prosecuted in Italy since 1981.^{[not verified in body]}