After reading chapter seven, I had a better understanding of why it is important to cite and give credit for the sources that you use. It always important to give someone credit for their work and thoughts. In writing there is a very specific way to do so, and I refreshed my memory in this chapter. I also liked that in the beginning the author questions if anyone can really own an idea. I have questioned that also because technically it’s not something you can hold like a physical item and say you own it. But after reading I realized it made sense that you can own an idea. It had a good example about someone writing a song and then someone else played it and said they wrote it. If I was that person I would be pretty mad too. A part of the chapter that I wasn’t to clear on was about giving credit but taking ownership. I’m not to sure what that really means. What I took from it was after you read or hear something it sparks another idea which you never would have gotten if you never heard or read what you did. So because it wasn’t all from your own ideas you need to give credit to the ideas that you used. I’m not sure if thats right but that is what I took from it. I really like this book so far, and the different views that it has made me look at as far as writing and thinking goes.
Troy Swanson.” Mash It Up…Gracefully”. “Why White Rice? -Thinking Through Writing”. Kendall Hunt Pub. 2010. p.163-174. Print.
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It just frustrates me that there are hundreds of thousands of songs out there, and many of them are bound to be similar. I’ve heard of people stealing “beats” and getting sued for it, but “beats” are pretty limited, because there are only so many notes and so many different ways to put them together. Maybe that’s why I see so many artists doing a cover of a song that was realased decades ago.
If I hear a song on the radio and type in some specific lyrics to try and find the name of the song, I usually gets results for like twenty different songs, and have to further analyze it to see which one of the songs it is, because songs have so many similar lyrics.
I do not really think anyone can own a scientific idea, like when the laws of physics were being discovered, because it was not their idea, it was just their discovery. They did not come up with the idea of gravity, it is just something that has always existed.