Tag: plagiarism
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Dua Lipa’s Levitating ASS: aka how not to copy a song
Artikal Sound System · 03 Live Your Life Future Nostalgia is apparently copying a song from 2017….eh Dua Lipa? Sound familiar? Artikal Sound System’s ‘Live Your Life’ is identical to Levitating, and was released on an EP in 2017 – called funnily enough ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. As Luxxury points out in his video, the choruses…
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Hollywood Gods N’ Monsters of the mashup steal
I’m fed up of people thinking stealing mashups without credit is fair game. Latest being Hollywood Gods N’ Monsters, with members formerly of Steel Panther who have covered DJ Schmolli’s Rock of Ages as well as a Lady Gaga vs Linkin Park mashup originally by DJStronGer22, rebooted in 2020 with credit by William Maranci. They…
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RIP Neil Innes
I wish I had better news these days, and it comes in droves. Neil Innes of Bonzo Dog Band and Rutles fame has just died, and to say I’m gutted is the biggest understatement of 2019. If you don’t know the work of Neil Innes, especially ‘Innes Book of Records’, his solo albums and the…
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Everybody’s heard about the bird
And everybody should hear this mashup ‘Surfin Beasties’ from Pimpdaddysupreme – Family Guy vs Trashmen vs Diplo vs Beasties, made for BOOTIE DragonCon and recently made into a video by PDS. As he details in the description (you should click on the link to read that), all the tracks included themselves have a chequered copyright…
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Video Will Eat Itself?
I suppose I should be honoured – plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, and this is the first time my video work has been ‘sampled’ to my knowledge, but to use nearly 50% of my video in another video with no credit? Naughty, obviously no honour among thieves anymore (I use snippets, but rarely…
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Lvlvlv1 aka DJ White Knight Mashup thievery redux
It seems our old friend lvlvlv1 has been busy. Not only has he (I think it’s a he if that’s him on his site) been posting fraudulently as two different people (same IP 98.77.31.17 , adsl-77-31-17.mia.bellsouth.net – dead giveaway!) on this blog in defense of himself, but he just sent this lovely little note from…