summertimemadnessx reblogged your post and added:
Did she actually take credit tho or claim she made...
Hi again, @summertimemadnessx - hope this finds you well.
When we write a term paper or a dissertation or compile a presentation for conference on a given topic, wherein we are asserting our take on said topic, the professional expectation (and ethical expectation) is to be able to turn to the last pages or see on the final slides a bibliography listing the authors of the works on the topic which we critically examined and on which we based our assertions. To submit the work with our names attached and no other indications that the thoughts and premises and hypotheses, et al, contained therein were derived from anywhere else but our own mind is implicitly taking credit for the contents. One does not have to explicitly note (via statement or watermark, etc.) that it is their brainchild for this to be the (quite logical) assumption - it’s under their name, ergo they’ve presented it as theirs.
If the sources are books or articles in magazines or medical journals, for instance, those have been made widely publicly available (be it for sale or for free) and the author(s) have no expectation of being contacted by every doctoral candidate, for example, for every dissertation. They would be swamped! There is, however - as noted - the ethical expectation that they are credited.
For those things which are not made widely available for public consumption, such as things found only on one website on one blog and nowhere else, the ethical expectation is that the creator be contacted for their permission to post elsewhere, and if the creator declines, then the conversation is over.
And, on an aside? Something that is available for wide public consumption and hasn’t quite met the benchmark for fair use can - per the creator’s request - be made unavailable for use in specific circumstances at the creator’s discretion. For example, with regard to politics, songwriters have refused to allow their songs (and their publishing companies - and labels, as well, in the case of singer-songwriters - have typically backed them up on this) to be used by certain candidates at, for instance, rallies and conventions, despite any blanket licensure(s) in effect at a given facility that legally would allow a given group to play whatever music they desired. Could that group fight it? Perhaps. But why bother?
Find another song.
Have a wonderful weekend!