It's not plagiarism, it's sampling

Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html

Although Ms. Hegemann has apologized for not being more open about her sources, she has also defended herself as the representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches from the whirring flood of information across new and old media, to create something new. “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity,” said Ms. Hegemann in a statement released by her publisher after the scandal broke.

 

Her next act will be to invent a drink called the Flaming Helene.

 

I;m from a different generation -- one without ethics or principles -- so it's OK...
Fuck that...

 

Somebody sic Oprah on her ass. That will solve everything ...

 

Yo Helene, I call b to the s -- lit ain't hip hop. And p.s.: You are so grounded.

 

Does she think that those rap acts didn't pay all those 1980s bands to "sample" (what a bullshit term) tunes and make themselves famous?

 

My version goes du-duh-duh, dad a duh DEE duh. Their version goes du-duh-duh, dad a duh dee duh.

They are totally different.

 

nice

 

No. It's nice, nice, baby! (insert howls of laughter here ;D)

 

Newsflash! Good-looking young author given wide lattitude by publishers! Plus, Teens can be glib and annoying!

 

This steaming pusbag should be verbally abused from here to kingdom come.

 

It's a shame this current generation apparently doesn't know the difference between using someone's work as inspiration and flat-out stealing.