Plagiarism

Part I.)

“Animal Planet”

Paragraph: The Allegory in this song is the constant mentioning of animals that are portrayed in a personified sense. This personification is their because if you think of it these animals are just doing things that everyday humans in society do. Example: “You see the chimps they grow hemp they hustle and sling in the trees” now imagine the chimps as drug dealers, the hemp as the drug, and “sling in the trees” as maybe escape from the elephants mentioned in the next line. All of these things enhanced the unique yet fantastic use of an allegory in the song Animal Planet.

“Right in Two”

Sentence1: In “Right in Two” the allegory stems from where they mention monkeys, these monkeys are meant to be humans, and I think that the son of the father spoken is maybe Jesus or another religious figure shown to be controlling these animals, that seem to be meant as the human race doing human like things that monkeys wouldn’t normally do.

“The Trees”

Sentence2:  The song uses Allegory to explain a much deeper point about civil rights and African American segregation in previous years, by saying “So the maples formed a union and demanded equal rights.” Is a clear indication that this song is an allegory, and that it is about the lack of equal rights for many people in earlier years.

Part II.)

1.)   @Plagiarism: Noun; The practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them off as one’s own.

2.)   @During the 80’s there were multiple law suits and settlements involving Led Zeppelin, for example Led Zeppelin's song "Whole Lotta Love" contained lyrics that were derivative of Willie Dixon's 1962 song "You Need Love." In 1985, Dixon filed a copyright infringement suit, resulting in an out-of-court settlement. Later pressings of Led Zeppelin II credit Dixon as co-writer. This is important especially to me that lyricists indentify the plagiarism of their songs, without it the world would run amuck with plagiaristic thieves which would make a living off stealing lyrics from classics, one hit wonders, most of all non-popular songs, which are less likely to be convicted because their less likely to be heard.

3.)   @In 2003 Michael Cottrill and Lawrence E. Wnukowski claimed that Britney Spears’s "Can’t Make You Love Me," from her 2000 album Oops!... I Did It Again, misappropriated substantial melodic material from their "What You See is What You Get". The court was skeptical on the question of defendant’s access to the plaintiff’s work. This example is technically a coincidence because it wasn’t proved to be plagiarism so it cannot be technically defined as plagiarism, placing it as undefined allowing me to label it a coincidence.

              Citations: @Google definitions, @Goldstein, Patrick. "Whole Lotta Litigation". Los Angeles Times, 3 February 1985: N72, @"Cottrill v. Spears, No. 02 – 3646, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8823". (E.D. Pa. May 22, 2003). http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_cottrillspears.html. Retrieved 23 November 2008.