Appropriation vs Plagiarism

Appropriating can vary in severity and definition. It basically is basing a piece of your work off of someone else’s. It could also be modifying someone else’s work and presenting it differently, claiming it as a new piece of work. As for its relation to plagiarism, depending on how much of the ‘original’ work is used, or represented as something new, with the new artist claiming it as their own, appropriation could be seen as plagiarism, which is claiming someone else’s work as your own, or copying it without credit. Artistic appropriation could be using parts of a piece in a new one, as sort of a collage, or like the video project that was mentioned in class, taking directly from other work and basically giving it a new angle, which could be technically interpreted as a plagiarism.