Sampling and Plagerising

During this digital age, pirates are thought to be an ancient way of life that we learn about through bed time stories. This is clearly not the case as the radio interview we heard in class and the plagiarizing article state. Instead of stealing treasure from ships and attacking people with swords on epic war ships, people all over the world are stealing songs, pieces of songs and claiming other academic works as their own. During the radio interview, the show host and his guests combated constant opinions on whether or not remixing a famous song is considered art or piracy. The same arguments are being made and vainly used in an attempt to mask the lazy antics of students nationwide when it comes to creating an honest scholarly article. Within the plagiarism article is plethora of attacks towards those individuals with no morals or work ethic. The universities are constantly combating the plagiarism and blatant disrespect that comes with that offence. Unlike the devastating seriousness of plagiarism, the remixes discussed in the radio interview are thought of as creativity at its finest instead of a criminal act by those who do it. The only opposition that the covering artists have is those people in which only desire to make as much money as possible from the products. The main argument against those artists who create the remixes is none other than the fact that they potentially jeopardize the musical integrity and quality of the original artist’s track. To many people it seems a feeble excuse to stop the endless ocean of imagination that lies within those who create masterpieces from all of those around them. Like many disagreements in this world, who owns what is a seemingly un ending contradiction that will always plague those with a love and desire to pursue something with no remorse.