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The word "original" has positive connotations. And therefore the words "unoriginal" or "not original" have negative connotations.
So, yeah, I don't think you'd encourage anyone to read anything by calling it "not original".
Except on Wikipedia (where it's usually an euphemism for ‘crackpottish’). ;-)
(As someone on a Wikipedia talk page once said -- quoting from memory, “if we aren't allowed to [do X] the allowed band between original research and plagiarism becomes dangerously narrow”.)