"Digital Music Sampling" and "Plagiarism Blurs Lines" Summary

While the two different sources talked about two topics that initially seemed unrelated, there was a common motif to both the pieces: that the idea of exchanging ideas is drastically different for this generation in both the creative and professional fields, due to progression in social technology. While the idea of plagiarism used to be very straightforward--if it's from a book that you didn't write, then don't take credit for it--the modern ease of attainment for relevent information has made it not-so-cut-and-dry.  While the radio show talked about how we may need to redefine terms of copyright to benefit the creativity of the country's youth, the article talked about how the creativity of today's youth may actually be waning, and the idea of copy and paste could much more appealing and quick than finding your own words to students; in fact, the difference may not even be clear to a handful of them.  But is it laziness that causes people to cut an paste music tracks to make a new collage that they could potentially take credit for? While it's debateable, the idea that the two go hand in hand may not need to be universal--while some rules need to be defined about what can or cannot be taken from the internet without proper citation, the same exact rules may not need to be "copied and pasted" into the music industry; perhaps, even if the two issues do resonate a common creed of the new generation, they need to be approached seperately to find what is needed to set both of them down the right path. Most of the guests on the talk show spoke positively about sampling music, but all the references in the article provided the vision of a new and potentially dangerous view on copyrights when it came to online sources. Ultimately, the articles joined to produce the idea that America's students may be finding new ways to produce creative works, but it may be a problem if their creative mindset bleeds into their professional views--whether or not sampling music is illegal or wrong, the idea of plagiarism will most likely need to be firmly laid down in the near future, or stripping lines from wikipedia pages could possibly be a new, innovative way to "breath new life into a research paper".