Marcia Devlin’s “Policy, Preparation, Prevention and Punishment: One Faculty’s Holistic Approach to Minimizing Plagiarism,” relates to the other articles that we have looked into during class because they all relate to the issue of this concept of “copyrighting;” taking someone else’s work and using it as your own. The similarities between articles are obvious—taking ones work because of the easy accessibility via the Internet. However, when comparing plagiarism to say, the article regarding music sampling, I believe that there is a fine line between the two concepts. Plagiarism is something that should never be “okay,” and when one plagiarizes, they should be fully aware of the fact that what they are doing is wrong. Whereas music sampling is slightly different, it can essentially help out the artist by a marketing technique because the sample of their music that is featured in the song will be listened to, and consumers may be interested in that particular sample of the song and then go to purchase the artist’s original piece. Plagiarism is something that should never be tolerated nor accepted in today’s society. Just because our generation has grown up with the easy convenience of the Internet, this should not be an excuse for us to be oblivious to the fact that we are stealing someone else’s words. In all cases, however, regarding music sampling and plagiarism, there needs to be more restrictions and thorough guidelines along with actual consequences that are followed through with if these laws are broken.
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