Vanilla Ice Analysis

Investigating through Malcolm Gladwell essay “Something borrowed “his uses his personal experience to show, every borrow words or ideas from one another but is it really plagiarism. He talks about him and his friends and how they listen to certain songs and how some had the used rhythms or melodic line but its different ways. “If Led Zeppelin hadn’t been free to mine the blues for inspirations we wouldn’t have got “Whole Lotta Love “, and if Kurt Cobain couldn’t listen to more than a feeling” and picked out and transform the part he really liked we wouldn’t have “Smells like Teen Spirit”. (Gladwell, 47). With his personal experience I think he saying that we are not trying to plagiarism but we are trying to borrow, change and make a song

Is Vanilla Ice's song “Ice, Ice, Baby” an example of plagiarism? Of course, it is, and Robert Matthew Van Winkle, who known professionally as Vanilla Ice knows it. Vanilla Ice became famous for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright of someone else baseline. Some people said that since the words were not the same, then it wasn't plagiarism. It was just an artist sampling another artist's music which happens all the time. To me, I believe that this is an example of plagiarism. Vanilla Ice can't go and change one beat in someone's music and call it new and original without giving the person any credit. He thought changing the rhythm of David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” baseline and not giving him credit would avoid him from any trouble. Vanilla Ice’s song “Ice, Ice, Baby” is an example of plagiarism, with evidence provided of what he did wrong, and what he could have done to avoid this type of consequences.

In this song, Chance the Rapper states he wants to be an independent musician. He is sick and tired of today’s music industry treating music as a way to make money. Nowadays, almost all of the musicians are signed by record labels and forced to make music for the money purpose. However, Chance The Rapper wants to be a true artist and has entire freedom to follow his heart to make music just like his predecessors did decades ago. He respects to the old generation artists and the freedom of music creation, so he decides to be an independent musician and make this song to tell people that he won’t join any record label.

Music is, in many ways, a personal and emotional reflection of not only the writer’s own experiences, but also that of the listener. This also occurs for the artists of cover songs. A cover song is a performance of a previously recorded song, in a new style than the other original by a different, or even the same artist. An artist finds inspiration in the personal and individual concepts of music, and chooses to create, through music’s universal dimensions, their own interpretation for new listeners to find their own inspiration. A problem that arises when covering music is the idea of copyright issues, and the idea of authenticity. Nicholas Cook discusses authenticity in a variety of different ways throughout his book, Music: A Very Short Introduction, in order to describe how an artist can truly be a lasting and original force. An in depth musical analysis of the song “Hallelujah,” originally recorded by Leonard Cohen, but covered by various other artists, can help show the relationship between authenticity in cover music, and why people relate differently to different covers.

Transformative qualities are an essential aspect of deciding the applicability of fair use when borrowing from copyrighted works. Transformative equates to works that step beyond the replication of a copyrighted work. This can be accomplished by changing the purpose and adding artistic value to the new creation. Through the incorporation of a new purpose and character, consideration of the minimal portion used of the copyrighted work, and inspection of the lack of effect on the market of the original work, it is conclusive that Kanye West’s “Champion” falls under the protection of fair use when taking into account its incorporation of Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne.” West uses a

In 1963 a song called “He’s So Fine” was a big hit, the holder of its copyright, Bright Tunes Music Corporation, sued in federal district court, G. Harrison and Harrisongs Music, Ltd. Bright Tunes claimed that Harrison’s song “my sweet love” (handled by ABKCO Music inc) infringed its copyright to “He’s so fine”.

The Anthology of Rap is a guide to everything hip-hop from 1970 to 2010. Starting with artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, and Sugarhill Gang then ending with Kanye West, Eminem and other modern artists. While this book does focus more on the lyrics of certain songs, the authors, Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, mention the song’s samples and how the artist used them within the song. This book provides a great understanding of how the use of samples have changed over the course of hip-hop history. Comparing my findings with other references such as “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling annotation” I can find out exactly how the use of samples changed during and after the result of the trials listed in the

Once more people could hear more types of music, some became inspired, and some began to copy. There are many examples of how musicians have blatantly ripped each other off, ranging from Led Zeppelin stealing “Dazed and Confused”, to members of ZZ Top literally claiming to be another band. Many of these cases go to court, and change the way music is created, and written. One landmark case is De la Soul vs. the Turtles. In this case De la Soul, an entirely Black rap group, ripped off a song by the Turtles, an entirely White pop band. This case changed the way rap music is created, due to the heavy use of samples. Now rappers had to pay attention to the samples they used, and pay artists who made them. The verdict was so influential, De la Soul went as far as to argue that this verdict could end rap music as a whole (Runtagh, 2016). This case just shows one way the court system has tried to draw a line between blatant thievery and inspiration, and the compensation involved. There are many other cases that also attempt to create a legal distinction, but it is difficult for a court to make an exact line. There are only so many melodies, and notes, and some happen to sound similar, and sometimes songs are made to sound similar. Courts must go on a case by case basis in order to determine what exactly is and isn’t plagiarized. After the

When Earl Sweatshirt’s first commercial album Doris was released in 2013, its style really threw me off. Lyrically poetic and occasionally amelodic, it refused listeners the lyrical thrills of his debut mixtape Earl, which was released three years earlier when he was 16 under LA collective Odd Future (OF). Instead, Doris came off as complex, understated, and disconnected as he tried to commit to a sound.

Beginning at 0:09 in “My Name is”, Eminem uses sample appeared at 2:31 in “I Got the…” as a major rhythm for the whole song. Sampling is one of the most common elements in the hip-hop music. Sampling is the act of using recordings of other music in making new music. In the hip-hop music history, sampling is always a controversial topic legally and musically since sampling relates to the issue of the copyright of the music. Does sampling violate the other musicians’ copyright? Does sampling threaten the innovation of the music? Those questions are the most sensitive debates about sampling. Sampling begins in mid-1970s, when DJs mixed between particular parts of records, especially the breakdowns, to inspire dancers in the party. The technique, such as spinning and scratching the record while it played, can be considered as an early form of sampling in hip-hop music. In the mid-1980s, the primary use of “sampling” as a basis of the beat is a main shift in production. “La Di Da Di” produced by Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh is probably the most sampled song in hip-hop. Sampling has three “layers”, which are the sound, the reference and the intertextuality. The artist may use sampling to refer the older piece’s context or refer to other people’s use of the same sample. There are some famous cases regarding sampling in the hip-hop history. For example, “Pretty Women” produced by 2 Live Crew was sued for using Roy Orbison’s song. As a result, 2 Live Crew won on the basis

Vanilla Ice willfully sampled “Under Pressure” without their permission, which is a direct offense of copyright law. This type of infringement is equatable to stealing property (Moser & Slay, 2014). After a stern confrontation from the collective legal team, Vanilla Ice’s initial defense was incredibly weak: author J. Runtagh, for the Rolling Stone, states his defense makes this one of the most “hilarious” copyright cases ever. One could argue that a more appropriate course of action would be to take Vanilla Ice to court and have him formally charged with copyright infringement, as well as not allowing him to purchase all the publishing rights. Vanilla Ice’s nonchalant attitude toward the infringement lends one to believe he does not understand or care about his actions. Moreover, allowing David Bowie and Queen to keep their share of songwriting royalties and publishing royalties serves more appropriately as a settlement due to the fact that it allows for income to be pursued as long as the rights are

Music is a unique way of expressing one’s self, though ideas can become recycled and borrowed by other artists. These days, a particularly older person could hear a newly-released song and find the music to be familiar. An artist can simply borrow the music from an older song and then incorporate it into a new song of their own. Many artists and songwriters nowadays use this technique in their own music. Say an older person was to hear the smash hit “Shape of You” by songwriter and singer Ed Sheeran. They would hear a song that they once treasured from their days in the club. The song “No Scrubs” by a high-selling music trio of the 1990’s, called TLC, once wrote a song that contains that same music. This is a perfect representation of the idea of reused music.

Covering has become an important part of today’s musical world. A practice that started many decades ago, dating back to the 1940s and beyond, has become not only accepted but expected. It is a complex issue; however, as it raises issues such as the acknowledgment of the covered music as original art, the ethical questions the practice raises, and the relevance of the cover to popular music. Artists have covered songs for many years, and the practice has expanded drastically. Some artists cover songs performed by an artist covering other songs.

As far as my knowledge is concerned, this RAP doesn’t contain any plagiarism and being an accountant, all ethical standards has been taken into account before doing any work. All data needed have been collected from reliable resources and Harvard referencing has also been used. No alterations of facts and figures have been done to avoid any misrepresentations

Plagiarism is a act of imprinting another person's writing, conversation, or even ideas. This even includes the information one gets from WebPages, the published papers online and even articles