The question of originality made me think of the artist, Girl Talk. Girl Talk, a DJ that samples many different songs and combines them together to make a new creation, has been called a music thief. There was a time when he could not really sell his music, because technically he was "stealing" from other musical artists and chopping up their music. While Girl Talk does not write music himself, I feel there is some new creation that sprouts up from his sampling, some originality. Although he does not feel there is such a thing as original music anymore, as he has stated,
"I don’t think there’s any original music anymore. It’s all about taking a previous idea and recontextualizing it. That’s the art of pop."
Even though he has stated this, I feel he has done something original. While the music samples, separately, were created by others, he has found a way to take these pieces and create something new, and something of his own. There are not many other songs like Girl Talk's songs, which says something about the originality of the music.
I feel that this is comparable to visual art.
A friend of mine drew this. And one may call this "unoriginal", simply because he has used the image of the aliens, from the Alien Trilogy. But I see it as him sampling from the films and recontextualizing, giving the drawing some originality.
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