The audio clip about digital music sampling brought up things that I had never thought much about.  It seems as though the issue comes from whether or not the person using the music sample holds the rights to the song and whether or not the original artist or that artists music label corporation is receiving money for the song being used. If the person using the sample does not have a license to use that sample they can be sued for copyright infringement.  It seems to me as though the original artists are not nearly as upset about their samples being used as the music label corporations associated with the original artist.  Samples can help bring the spotlight back to artists who had fallen out of it, when a piece of their song is used within the new creation it can help bring the spotlight back to focus on them.

The article about plagiarism brings up the fact that college professors are in awe over the amount of students who take part in plagiarizing. It is becoming easier and easier for students to plagiarize with the help of the internet.  The internet gives the student access to a wealth of information and the occasional lack of credible sources. Before there was so much access to information on the internet it was much harder to plagiarize, simply due to the fact that students used to have to physically look through books for information instead of being able to just copy and paste information from a web page and insert it into their papers. Part of the issue with plagiarism is the lack of citations found within student's research papers.  This may simply be due to the fact that students in this day and age have become lazier than the students in previous generations.  There is a overall lack of effort put into the writing of research papers and this leads students to "steal" snippets of information from articles and books written by other authors and claim them as their own work.