They sell a product. That product is the ability to produce beautiful stories for online publications. There is code in there, and because of the poor copy, it'

They sell a product. That product is the ability to produce beautiful stories for online publications. There is code in there, and because of the poor copy, it's obvious that the code was stolen. But, what I don't understand is, why didn't they call it plagiarism, which is usually what you would call a copied story. both are copyright violations, but is one worse in terms of law?