Plagiarism in Rap
This week, I found it really interesting to learn about the
role of plagiarism and sampling in the Hip Hop world in Hess’s, “Was
Foucault a plagiarist? Hip-hop sampling and academic citation”. I remember
hearing on the radio or various news sources things about celebrities getting
upset about their “names and likenesses” being used in rap or hip-hop songs but
I never thought that one could plagiarize rap music. They brought up a good
point that in writing such as essays and books you can cite and give credit
where credit is due and there is not an easy way to do something such as that.
The artist could give credit on their cover or in their title of the song but
there is not a proper/accepted way that is allowed such as MLA. I do not think
it is fair and I could see something happening in the near future that would
help singers.
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