@meiosis Yes, I do. I believe almost religiously that work that is originally done by someone should be respected as such, and therefore credited when someone else builds upon it. I am a huge fan of the Beastie boys, and from a young age, I remember desperately flipping through their album leaflets to find out where they got their samples…but there was no such info. You see, if I had found out where those samples came from, it would’ve opened me up to a whole new cache of music that I might not have known about otherwise. Likewise, once I realized that Zeppelin had ripped off so many (and mostly non-copyrighted) Blues artists, I went back and found the original versions of the songs they covered (and did not openly credit until they were forced to) and found that I liked the originals way more than the Zeppelin versions.
This is a very interesting discussion…at what point do you justify using or building upon someone else’s work, and do you or don’t you credit them? I think it is wrong, and cowardly, not to credit.
This is a very interesting video (not where I originally heard about the “plagiarism” of LD, but most in-depth). There are three others that follow it. Let me know if you want to see them also.