Stealing or Sampling

Over the course of this class one of the most memorable conversations the class had, would most likely be the huge debate over Elvis, and the difference between stealing/covering/using other people’s music. A class or so after that we briefly talked about Daft Punk for like two minutes, but it kind of reminded me about something I saw on a similar subject. The video below will show that a lot of popular Daft Punk songs, actually feature samples from other songs throughout the piece of music. So I was beginning to think about where the line of sampling from other artist falls. I honestly do not know if they credited where their got their samples, but I feel like most people don’t do that now adays anyway. Although if I’m not mistake Kayne West did credit them when he made a song based off one of their songs. Pretending that they didn’t credit anyway, would it be less wrong for them to only use a sample rather than taking most of the song like Elvis did, or is it okay because they only used such a small section and changed it. I don’t really know myself, but all I know is I just enjoy their songs, even if they had to sample from others.