i'm not saying here, like, that there's 22 million songs released every single year, so therefore plagiarism is fine and it should happen. like, if you've had influence from something, you credit it and if you haven't, you say that you haven't. and that should be it, it should just be about honesty. some of these things, though, can be characterized in a positive way, can't they? like, someone�*s open to influence or they love collaborating. and then you can characterize it in another way. for example, you're a magpie, that that was a line that was used in court by the other side, that that you pick things out of other people's music. well, i mean, in a sense, you could be describing the same thing, couldn't you ? it's a positive or a negative construction on the fact that you're very open to collaboration with other artists and acknowledging it. but being open to collaboration with other artists and sampling and taking influence and crediting is very different to holding onto an idea for years and years and years and being like, well, "i'm going to steal that and use it." it's a very, very different thing. and i think, you know, i write and johnny writes hundreds