Building a Memory: K7 #016

25 July 2020

K7 #016 - Plagiarism?

Some years ago I lectured an English conversation class where the subject was "Plagiarism or Inspiration?". I've approached with my students some artistic paintings and even songs. What is the limit of being considered inspiration or plagiarism? Being proved the plagiarism, is there any need to go to court? It was a nice class in which the one-hour set extrapolated.

Remembering this, on June 22 I commented in the group that reviews the texts about this idea. They even reminded me of some videos, like the one from Pipocando Música. When I was ready to make my research, I noticed Steve Terreberry, better known as Stevie T, released a video talking about the same subject. This video came out July 11.

The list he put in was so surprising (I only knew half the cases) that I decided to use all the songs he mentioned. The first name accused the second, but not necessarily won the trial. The only ones who are not in this list are the ones who open this list, which was a funny case that happened in Brazil back in 2011, which was broadcasted in Jornal da Noite, a famous end-of-the-day news program, and Kiko Loureiro, one of the involved in the case, told the story (English subbed). I couldn't find the accused version in the audio-streaming platforms, but you can listen to it here.

Have you had known some of these cases? Do you have any other suggestion?