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There are many popular people, and the famous youth literary writer August Chang'an with works such as "The Best of Us" and "Hello, Old Times" is inevitable. "The Plagiarism Storm".
Recently, some netizens have sorted out a comparison chart of Chang'an's "Embarrassed for Joy" in August on Weibo, which is suspected of plagiarizing Piao Axi's "Passing, Hurry", which has attracted attention. Later, in August, Changan released Weibo saying that he had never plagiarized.
Every reporter noticed that since 2014, nearly 15 popular film and television dramas have triggered "plagiarism" disputes. "Zhen Huan", "Langya Bang", "Flower Thousand Bone", "Splendid Weiyang", "Sansheng III Shili Peach Blossom", "Chu Qiao Chuan", etc., have all been caught in the suspected plagiarism infringement of the original works.
"Wandering for Joy" plagiarizes "Passerby, Hurry"? August Chang'an: I have never copied
. People who have followed "The Best of Us", "Hello, Old Times" and "Tangerines in Huainan" and other "Zhenhua Trilogy" may have noticed that the original author August Changan Has been involved in the "plagiarism storm" recently.
"The Best of Us" TV series Douban scored 8.9, August Changan was one of the screenwriters
August Changan's real name is Liu Wanhui, born in August 1987, and was admitted to Peking University in 2006 with the first score in Harbin City's liberal arts . While in college, he published the first youth novel "Hello, Old Times" under the pseudonym of August Changan, which attracted a large number of readers, and then successively published "The Best of Us", "Secret Love Orange in Huainan" and "Time". With many works such as "Daughter of Love", Changan became a screenwriter in August as the works were turned into film and television.
But controversy also followed. On the evening of March 4, some netizens posted a direct point of "August Chang'an plagiarism + cheating", and posted a comparison chart of August Chang'an's "Embarrassed for Joy" which was suspected of plagiarizing Piao Axi's "Passing, Hurry".
Netizens posted on Weibo a comparison chart of "Embarrassed for Happiness" suspected of plagiarizing "Passing and Hurry"
On March 5, August, Changan's trumpet posted a long post on Weibo, indicating that "Embarrassed for Happiness" is a casual writing practice. The work is aimed at writing dog blood, so in the initial setting, it was planned to pile up all the network romance novels that have been read and have basically become classic routines. "You can even say Just because each of the aforementioned works has a wide range of readers and is very popular, I am more calm about my source of inspiration. Everyone will know who the pioneers of these settings are, and I am an obvious descendant."
Chang'an also said in August that he was not from a major and did not receive a systematic literary education. He started to write novels because he had read too many online essays in his junior year, and he felt itchy, but what he wrote, why and how to write step by step Out of his own style, the traces have a clear conscience.
"I used to be a college student who read a large number of online novels. I was inspired by countless excellent groundbreaking romance novels. I also had a "non-scientific background" as a talisman. It is inevitable that there will be rash or rough expressions. These are forever I stayed on the Internet. Some of the predecessors I wanted to write no longer wrote, and some continued to seek breakthroughs in themes and texts, and gradually washed out the sense of internet in the text. I have faced the same in recent years. People always want to get better and better, but at a certain stage, they will find that the previous accumulation is no longer enough to support the expanding ambitions. They can only take it slowly. But no matter how slow, I never Don’t copy.”
later in the comment area, in August Changan responded to questioning netizens again: “If you really want to copy, I won’t even put these paragraphs together. I really want to copy it. I’m not going to give it away like this.”
Chang'an explained in August that some netizens said they would not buy it, but it is also difficult to identify whether the article is plagiarized. Up to now, the two sides still hold their own opinions.
The identification of plagiarism is difficult, the cost of infringement is low, and the cost of rights protection is high.
Since the 2014 TV series “The Palace Lock Liancheng” was reported for plagiarism, the five defendants paid a total of 5 million yuan in compensation for the rapid development of online literature. Plagiarism happens frequently behind the scenes.
In addition to Chang'an's "Worry for Joy" in August, the most recent issue that attracted attention due to the "plagiarism" incident was the dark horse in 2019, "You are a teenager". However, at that time, the original author Jiu Yuexi responded in a Weibo post saying, "I have never plagiarized."
Every time the reporter noticed, "Zhen Huan", "Langya Bang", "Flower Thousand Bone" and "Splendid Weiyang""Sansheng III Shili Peach Blossom", "Chu Qiao Biography", "Zhu Xian", "Chen Qing Ling" and so on. Almost every popular film and television work has more or less been caught in the suspected plagiarism of the original work.
can be sentenced to compensation for "plagiarism" like "Splendid Weiyang". On the one hand, with the rapid development of online literature, the phenomenon of homogenization of works is serious. Many works of the same type are very similar in story routines and plots. This makes it very difficult to define many "plagiarism", and the process of definition is very complicated and costly. Time and effort.
It is understood that it took 3 years to compare "Splendid Weiyang", with 60 screenwriters, 9 lawyers and nearly 100 volunteers participating, and finally it was determined that the infringement was established, and the total compensation was over 740,000 yuan. "A lot of work has been done, very complicated and very troublesome. Even if there is compensation in the end, the cost of rights protection is still very high." As a senior person in the field of identification of plagiarism, senior screenwriter Yu Fei who participated in the rights protection work said.
On the other hand, many people in the industry believe that low infringement costs and high rights protection costs are also important reasons for the frequent occurrence of plagiarism in online literature.
"Even if you are convicted of plagiarism, the plagiarizer has never formally apologized. The harm you have suffered cannot be solved with money. People who use drugs and whoring are all blocked by the entertainment industry. Why the court ruled that plagiarism can be Mentor?" Yu Fei questioned the reporter.
IP prevailed in the first two years. Once the slightly famous Internet literature IP is developed, movies, TV series, games, comics, animations, etc. will be launched one after another. The huge exposure often means huge commercial benefits and traffic.
In Yu Fei's view, the cake is too big to get a share. "Nowadays, there are very few institutions, companies or individuals that truly judge whether'plagiarism' is objectively business or technical. What's even more frightening is that some people who act frequently under the banner of anti-plagiarism are actually behind the agents of certain contracted writers. The company, the banner of anti-plagiarism has actually become an auxiliary means for the party’s common struggle or capital operation.”
Now, Yu Fei no longer does “plagiarism identification” work. Faced with the prevalence of plagiarism, he bluntly said: "I have already been discouraged. Plagiarism identification not only requires a lot of time and energy, but the key is to be misunderstood, accused, and criticized. The industry can take practical actions against plagiarism. There are so few people, and even the original sins of plagiarism, Yu Zheng and Guo Jingming, have not been resolved. What's more, no one really cares about this chaos in the industry. The'anti-plagiarism' industry is basically dead. "
With the past of the IP virtual fire, really good works are very limited, and there are not many very good creators in the country. "But as long as the court doesn't judge, as long as the works are hotly adapted and can attract traffic, capital will not care too much about plagiarism." But Yu Fei still emphasized that plagiarism is a fatal problem for film and literary creation. Only by combating plagiarism can we encourage originality and innovation, which is very important for the cultural industry.
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