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The only problem I have with sampling is when it's recent source material and the original artist isn't credited. I hear hiphop songs sampling great music from the 70s and I know about a million teenagers that love the song have no idea that that hip hop artist didn't do anything but sing new lyrics to the song.
Many of the greatest movies ever made were direct copies or sampled scenes and plots from other movies. I'm sure it's the same with books. The Magnificant Seven, a great western is based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa. On the Topic of Kurosawa, Roshomon, another of his great films is based on a short story made years before and has been copied many times since. A 3rd great film by him, Yojimbo is Clint Eastwood's Fistful of Dollars, a great speghetti western.
Star wars takes scenes right out of old WW2 movie which I can't remember the name atm, but it's the scene when Han says Don't get cocky, kid. Hell, Star wars even has a little bit of Seven Samurai in it.
Sam Raimi took his cheaply made Evil dead movie, re-wrote it with a budget and made Evil Dead 2.
I just think it's important to look a little deeper into the things you enjoy, you might find that it was greatly influenced by another great work. I don't look down samples in hip hop anymore because I've looked though the history books and I've seen that great work can have elements directly copied from earlier works.
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