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Old 05-22-2008, 10:45 AM   #37 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen
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Covering a song and taking credit for writing it, however, is plagiarism, regardless of how different from the original it may sound.
Yes, certainly I agree that that is plagiarism. As for adapting/creating a variation of a well-known guitar lick, that's no more plagiarism than using a drumbeat or a fill.
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