Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)

The fourth "Minute Meme" from QuestionCopyright.org - more at http://questioncopyright.org/minute-memes/credit-is-due

Movie and song by Nina Paley
Performed by Evanescent (Vocals & Ukele: Bliss Blood, Guitar: Al Street) http://www.blissblood.com/ev.music.htm
Sound effects design by Greg Sextro

LYRICS:
Always give credit where credit is due
if you didn't write it, don't say it's by you
just copy the credit along with the work
or else you'll come off as an arrogant jerk

Always give credit where credit belongs
we know that you didn't write Beethoven's songs
pretending you did makes you look like a fool
unless you're Beethoven -- in that case, it's cool

A transparent system makes cheating unwise
the simplest web search exposes your lies
no one wants their reputation besmirched
which happens to liars when they are web-searched

Proper citation will make you a star
it shows that you know that we know who you are
Plagiarization will only harm you
so always give credit where credit is due!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• animation
• cartoon
• Mimi
• Eunice
• funny
• humor
• comic
• copyleft
• copyright
• free culture
• open content

[ScytheNoire]

You can give credit where it is due and still get sued for copyright infringement these days. That's the problem. Copyright isn't working as it should. It's broken. It's never worked properly. It's all about censorship and control.

[olllj]

this video is missing the ebaumsworld logo

[kokokokotkokot]

@outstandingpajamas Yeah, because law is always just and correct.. oh wai--

[outstandingpajamas]

lol

I love that the person who says that cloning something isn't theft (even though the law says that it is and fair use does not apply in nearly every instance if theft) is trying to promote some semblance of morality in said non thievery.

[ihatefurrys]

@BigDogJang0 Techniquely the song is public domain, and since the video was all about stealing Beethoven's stuff, I think it was kind of assumed that people could figure out who it was by.

[BigDogJang0]

Ironic. This video forgot to credit Beethoven's symphony during the song credits.

[ihatefurrys]

@pdxktv Plagiarization isn't the same thing as theft. How would you feel if you wrote a really good story that you were proud of and someone copied it and claimed that they wrote it themselves? You'd be pissed off regardless of whether or not they were making money off of it. When you're copying copyrighted material, you're making it available to everyone, but when you plagiarize, you're not even giving credit to the people who really made it. There's a big difference.

[mphello]

@ihatefurrys  Oh, it's evil alright. Hard to say which is the most evil: Monsanto, Wal-Mart, Shell (Nigeria), Bank of America, Goldman Sachs. They are all evil in their own unique ways. And they are all running neck and neck.

Nuke them all.

[ihatefurrys]

@mphello Monsanto is the most evil, greedy corporation that has ever existed.

[ihatefurrys]

@pdxktv Because someone worked hard on that piece of work, and if you claim that you're the one who made it, you're being an asshole.

[kleverkloggs]

@pdxktv er, the creator supports themselves and future work by selling copies of the original, to copy the work of another is to divert income away from the creator and undermines the future of what you copy, most issues around copyright seem to more about distribution . . . . .

[mphello]

I give credit to Bush, Cheney, and everyone who voted for Republicans and Democrats

for 1 million dead Iraqis. That's a LOT of individuals to give "credit" to.