Plagiarism Exposed In Malcom Gladwell's Something Borrowed

As the world around us is growing rapidly everyday, we are easily overwhelmed by tons of new information. We rarely have the chance to think how digital technologies affect the way we gather the information and whether we are using it correctly. In the article “ Something Borrowed” by Malcolm Gladwell, he asserts that it is okay to use old ideas as long as the new work is transformative, and in the article The Plagiarist’s Tale” by Lizzie Widdicombe, she argues that copying is a creating process and continuous borrowing is a kind of art. Both the authors agree that borrowing is deemed to be acceptable as long as they are not entirely copying old work. It is true that everyone can have there own definition of plagiarism, and I believe that nothing

Plagiarism is a form of cheating, and a serious violation of the honor code and academic honesty in educational institutions. According to dictionary.com, plagiarism is: a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation [1]. In simplified terms, plagiarism is taking and using some else’s work without giving credit to the righteous owner, for using their information. This work includes but is not limited to text, graphs, pictures, statistics, or other types of information that is not considered “common knowledge.” It is also considered as stealing, thus it is not tolerated anywhere in the world, and penalties are strictly

Plagiarism in writing, which could be defined as borrowing a creator’s original ideas and/or words without attributing credits where it’s due, is considered a big concern in higher-education level. The difference in ways of writing among regions and countries baffled me, thus resulted in my interest in the topic. One of the ethical issue concerns the role cultural background plays in forming students’ way of writing: some believe that plagiarism is acceptable in Asian countries, claiming plagiarism is a concept produced and mainly employed into practice in the Western nations, while other counter plagiarism is perceived the same way everywhere in the world – to be frowned upon. This essay will mainly explore the notion of whether culture shapes the way students perceive plagiarism, and if the previous statement stands true, should it be appreciated as one’s tradition.

-This doesn't mean that people are stealing others' work, it means that each and every piece of literature directly affects the way a writer views and processes things.

Michael R. Cohen, 25B WEST 'S LEGAL FORMS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY § 23:22 (2014) (“Since it would be virtually impossible for publishers or songwriters to monitor and control the large numbers of users of their songs, the enforcement and control of such performance rights usually falls to one of three performing rights organizations ....”).

Furthermore, various songs are specifically written with certain intentions and nuances to express the artist’s values and beliefs about a topic such as, love or the natural phenomena. Based on the passage, “ Source 2: Selling Out Not Worth the Risk”, it states “ But when outside interests enter the mix, they can replace the passion in an artist’s music and turn the art into just another tool for corporations.” To emphasize, businesses have the power to change any lyric in the song, so the song would lose it’s meaning and instead be about the product the business is selling. Even though, allowing corporations use an artist’s song for advertising a product, enables the artist’s song to be heard from an even more

It can be argued that what we experience in life lead us to develop our takes on culture. In The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah draws on her real-life experiences to illustrate how reality is used to shape fiction. In her autobiography, No Disrespect, Sister Souljah writes about her experiences growing up basing each chapter on a different person who affected her in her

In the movie “Finding Forrester” , it’s main focus was to imply the word “Plagiarism” into the acts of the main character Jamal Wallace. This plays a role later into the movie in which he is assumed to have plagiarized the work of William Forrester a famous writer. Although the movie promotes the harms of plagiarism it also tells a good story about a friendship amongst two strangers. Throughout the movie Jamal Wallace developes a friendship with William Forrester that starts to become more than just writing sessions in an apartment. They begin to find a friendship within themselves due to their same abilities as writer, and begin to trust one another in keeping secrets solely just inside Forrester's apartment. Both characters really show the true meaning of what a friendship should be between two people no matter if they have the same interest or are different from one another.

Investigating through Malcolm Gladwell essay “Something borrowed “his uses his personal experience to show, every borrow words or ideas from one another but is it really plagiarism. He talks about him and his friends and how they listen to certain songs and how some had the used rhythms or melodic line but its different ways. “If Led Zeppelin hadn’t been free to mine the blues for inspirations we wouldn’t have got “Whole Lotta Love “, and if Kurt Cobain couldn’t listen to more than a feeling” and picked out and transform the part he really liked we wouldn’t have “Smells like Teen Spirit”. (Gladwell, 47). With his personal experience I think he saying that we are not trying to plagiarism but we are trying to borrow, change and make a song

Pennycook’s essay “Borrowing Others’ Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism” starts with a description of the incident that a student wrote some paragraphs of the high school textbooks into the essay. The first node appears after the description of the trigger, followed by the detailed analysis of how the historical notions of ownership and authorship have evolved from the premodern to the modern era (Pennycook, 203). This node which alters the discourse from the portrayal of the studying motivation to the exploration of the historical and cultural factors in depth highlights the importance and necessity of the exploration.

In The Ecstasy Of Influence: A Plagerism, the author Jonathan Lethem attempts to decipher the difference between getting an idea that is influenced by another’s work, and plagiarizing somebody’s work. Not only does he discuss the multiple times in history where new ideas have been derived from other works, but he also attempts to discover where the line can be drawn between influence and plagiarism. Throughout the work, the author discussed what he thinks about adopting ideas and why some people may consider something plagiarism while others may not. He argues that while some artists may consider similar ideas to be a form of plagiarism, others like himself see the sharing of ideas & being influenced and inspired by other works is what helps

Is Vanilla Ice's song “Ice, Ice, Baby” an example of plagiarism? Of course, it is, and Robert Matthew Van Winkle, who known professionally as Vanilla Ice knows it. Vanilla Ice became famous for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright of someone else baseline. Some people said that since the words were not the same, then it wasn't plagiarism. It was just an artist sampling another artist's music which happens all the time. To me, I believe that this is an example of plagiarism. Vanilla Ice can't go and change one beat in someone's music and call it new and original without giving the person any credit. He thought changing the rhythm of David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” baseline and not giving him credit would avoid him from any trouble. Vanilla Ice song “Ice, Ice, Baby” is an example of plagiarism, with evidence and proves that it was a number one hit just because it was based on the baseline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.

Music Copyright is a very important aspect of the music industry. The Copyright law was established to preserve the creativity and rights of authors, composers, performers of expression. Copyright is the law that protects the property rights of the creator of an original work in a fixed tangible medium. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copyright) A fixed tangible medium is something substantial like copying lyrics on paper or putting a song on tape or CD. Copyright can be seen every where in the music industry. Many music artist of our culture today have been involved in copyright issues. Recently, on MTV news it was stated that, "As the music industry becomes increasingly concerned about protecting the

As troubling as it is to learn that favorite artists may not be as original as they claim to be, taking legal action against big-name celebrities for song stealing is surprisingly common. Acts from Led Zeppelin and the Beatles to Beyoncé and Jay Z have been accused of musical theft. Starting with the latest, here are some recent high-profile musical plagiarism cases.

Even if it might improve the original work, Fadiman gives sympathy to original authors because she has first-hand experience on being the victim of plagiarism. She states “I take issue with these placable attitudes because I know, from an experience within my own family, how much plagiarism can hurt” (109). There is a continued feeling of animosity as Fadiman elaborates on her personal story of plagiarism. She concludes that plagiarists should feel guilty because the credit of the