plagiarism and the heisting of another's work

•   The discussion begins with digital technology and the idea of whether sampling pieces of individual songs is plagiaristic or copyright infringement. The idea is that everyone is considered a digital producer. individuals use samples all the time to create new creations. The official question posed, "Is taking snippets from other people's produced songs with copyright protections considered copyrighting?" Multiple people will take multiple clips from various songs and place them together in an entirely new formation. The debate was whether is would be considered as going against the rights of those who originally created the songs. This sampling is looked at as being essential for social culture and creating various connections among different communities. Another big question asked was whether the artists should be compensated for the sampling that the public is doing. The copyright argument is that it protects the whole song all inclusive. The courts agree that you can indeed "own" a sounds and therefore claim it as your own. The argument against that idea is that you need to get critiqued and the only way to do that is for someone to take the music and or play around with it a little and see how well it works. The biggest support for sampling is the fact that if music is not passed around and shared and modified than no one would have anything to listen to. Producers would not be able to produce new material if they could not modify old material or even get ideas from the older songs. This even helps unknown artists get their music out into the public, even if they are not making money off of it. Infringement can be anywhere from sampling one note of a song to completely copying an entire song and changing two of the words. Overall there is major hesitation about sampling and the rules that it must follow to allow for the artists, producers, and public to be happy. 
• The question that educational institutions pose all the time, "Is using an online source of information without siting the author because it doesn't have one considered plagiarism?" Many professors are puzzled as to why various students decide to plagiarize others work. It is so wide that laziness cannot be the only reason as to why there is so much plagiarism occurring. 40% of 14000 undergraduates copy a few sentences. They are not copying the whole paper but seem to only be adding a few non-cited thoughts into their papers. Suzan D. Blum was extremely curious as to why there was so much plagiarism occurring. A young german woman, Helene Hegemann, believes that "there is no such thing as originality, just authenticity." Most people consider plagiarism to be a lazy way to complete something rather than because someone does not understand something fully. The main reason that was found was that students were not being prepared enough in high school for the level of intensity of college work and therefore only thought to plagiarize. The plagiarism roots from being unprepared and not being able to do work.