Referencing

Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else’s work and using it as your own without crediting the person who’s work it is. There are many ways that you can detect if a piece of work has been plagiarised, Turnitin is a website used to check over work, it checks many sources on the internet to see if the work has been stolen from anywhere or if it is original. If you know the person who’s work you are checking personally you could check over their work and see if the language they used and their writing skill matches to their previous work.

An example of plagiarism being used in music is the Suicideboys song “Antarctica” that uses a large section of a Deadmau5 song, Deadmau5 filed a copyright strike on the song and it was taken down from YouTube and SoundCloud as part of the song was clearly plagiarised.

Another example of plagiarism is when people upload full length films to YouTube or other free video streaming websites for anyone to watch for free, the people uploading the films didn’t create them or don’t have anything to do with the creation of the films nor do they have permission to upload the films online.