Blog Post #3

The way in which Johnson-Eilola and Selbers concept of assemblage relate to Remix is because they mainly talk about the way that plagiarism is actually not always that bad, which is similar to what were talking about, which is how different sources of entertainment relate and are remixed to one another, which is completely different than stealing a song, which is just what they say. They specify that just because a piece of information is already released by someone else, its not bad for someone to come in and add a bit of input on the subject. A big important key word on that matter is "add" if one is just stealing another persons work without putting in any input then that's when it can be considered plagiarism
The weird thing about this article is the way the information was presented to one. It felt like it was, well for most of the time, talking about pretty much the same thing, which led me to believe, at least the first time I read the article that there is really no line between plagiarism and originality. Johnson-Eilola and Selbers really focus on the fact that the reason its so hard to determine this "line" is because there is really no place where one can say that all the information they found is original, most findings are all based on previous peoples information and the fact that today's generation is so intertwined and information is so easily accessible, societies standards have made the writer or composer focus on not plagiarizing so much that it can sometimes alter creativity. That is the mere fact that confused me about the article, maybe a question asking what the thin line between creativity and plagiarism is would make more sense, but still, after reading the article twice I still don't know where one could draw, this so called line, between plagiarism and originality.