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Season 3 Episode 36 | 10m 16s
Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us.
Aired: 05/04/17
Video has closed captioning.
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