Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 273 New Case: Unsolved Plagiarism (2)

Plagiarism... plagiarized content is punctuation? !The thing that came out of Shimokawa's mouth may be too shocking, so that Miyagawa was completely stunned.

When Miyagawa was studying copyright law at Tokyo University, she also took the first place in her grade in this course, surpassing Kitahara at the time.For this reason, she even had a little pride in private.

When she went to Hirose and said that the trouble she encountered was plagiarism, she thought that this case came to her field of expertise.

However, when she was actually exposed to copyright infringement cases, she found that the knowledge she had learned was completely useless at this moment.

The object of plagiarism is punctuation.

Can punctuation mark constitute the object of plagiarism?

Miyagawa is still able to recite the definition of works in copyright law.

However, is the insertion of punctuation marks in ancient Chinese characters in the proofreading of ancient books a work stipulated in the Copyright Law?

Miyagawa looked at Kawashita's question and was already a little dazed.

"This "Traveling in the Eastern Lands and Sending Tang Ji" was first discovered by Mr. Shimokawa." Hirose said with an injustice beside him, "I first saw this "Travel Notes of Sending Tang Envoys" at a private auction in Kyushu Island. Mr. Shimokawa spent himself With a lot of savings, I took a picture of the Tianhe year edition of "A Tour of Eastern Lands and Repatriation to the Tang Dynasty". Later, the teacher traveled to libraries, archives, and private museums all over the East to adjust the microfilms one by one and check their collection catalogs. , and finally found that there are a total of 11 editions of "The Journey to the Tang Dynasty on the Tour of the East", scattered in 9 archives all over the East."

"Teacher Xiachuan, personally intercepted the microfilms one by one, and sorted out all the 11 versions. Among them, each version has many incomplete and wrong characters. The teacher patiently compared and screened each version, and supplemented the wrong and missing content. , and finally formed a new version. On the basis of this version, the teacher checked word by word, added punctuation marks, segmented sentences, and added notes. The whole project was time-consuming and laborious, and the teacher spent nearly five years of hard work .”

"However...however, it is such a painstaking effort, all...all were stolen by that Fujimura!" Hirose became a little excited unknowingly.

Shimokawa looked at the beautifully printed book in front of him, on which the dean's name was clearly printed in the column of correctors, and he couldn't help but sighed slightly: "Yes, Fujimura copied me from these sentences. Punctuation."

"When I started this project, he didn't know how to know that I was doing this. It was about two years ago. Fujimura came to tell me that the Graduate School of Humanities at Kyoto University was recently Launching an ancient book sorting project is a key project funded by the Association for the Promotion of Oriental Studies, so let me also include this project.”

"Later, he asked me to print out the proofreading version and send it to the Academic Promotion Association for review. After I handed over the printed copy to him, there was no news. Until...until last year, I had a good A friend works as an editor at Kyoto University Press. He accidentally saw the publication news of "A Journey to Tang Dynasty in the Eastern Land" and thought that the proofreading was completed, so he called to congratulate me. At that time, I found out that it was Fujimura. My copybook was stolen and signed for his work."

Listening to this narration, at this moment, Miyagawa also finally understood why Shimokawa went all over the law firms in Kyoto, and they all said that this situation could not constitute plagiarism.

The situation in front of us just happened to be stuck in the gap of the copyright law.

At this moment, Miyakawa suddenly felt a little horrified when he thought of the figure of Dean Fujimura.

This must be on purpose.

Definitely on purpose.

Only those who have been immersed in the intellectual world for many years can come up with this extreme side-kicking method.

Bei Yuan looked at the "Eastern Land Tour and Repatriation to Tang Ji" in front of him, with a slight sneer on the corner of his mouth.He also understood why at the seminar, Hirose did not directly say how Fujimura copied Shimokawa's works, and he also understood where Fujimura's confidence came from.

From the perspective of copyright law, only "works" are the objects protected by copyright law.

The so-called work is the intellectual achievement with original expression.

However, punctuation is added in the ancient book collation, and sentences are segmented.

Are the punctuation marks original in their own right?
If the answer is no, then the collation of ancient books is not a "work", so it does not belong to the protection object of copyright law.Therefore, even if Fujimura copied these punctuation marks [-]%, it cannot be defined as plagiarism.

An example is the formulas of physics.

Formulas do not belong to the scope of works stipulated in the Copyright Law.

Even if you write the formula derived by others after your own work, it will not constitute plagiarism.

This is Fujimura's confidence.

"How is it? Saeko?" Hirose looked at Miyagawa and couldn't help but ask: "The law firms in Kyoto are all liars, right. This must be plagiarism, right. It must be plagiarism, yes Right, Saeko. I don't believe that in this world, copying [-]% of other people's achievements will not constitute plagiarism."

Miyagawa was speechless for a while, not knowing how to reply Hirose.She looked at the book on the table, opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word.

"The bad guy...will definitely get retribution, right, Saeko?" Hirose gently stretched out his hand and grabbed Miyagawa's arm, his voice trembling slightly.

Hirose had a premonition of something from Miyagawa's silence.

Before that, she and Professor Shimogawa almost traveled all over the law firms in Kyoto.

The answers he got were all cold rejections.

No lawyer was willing to represent the case.

Without exception, they all believe that it does not constitute plagiarism.Under such circumstances, suing the prestigious Kyoto University will undoubtedly be regarded as a blackmail lawsuit and damage the reputation of the law firm.

Hirose's heart was already stirred up. From Miyagawa's silence, she faintly felt that what the lawyers in Kyoto said might... might be true.

On the desktop, this "Eastern Land Tour and Repatriation to the Tang Dynasty" was quietly placed there.The author of this book is Nobuhiro Sekiya, who was a member of the eighth mission sent to the Tang Dynasty by the ancient Oriental, and set off with Abe Nakamaro.Later, when the Tang mission was sent back to Japan, it was robbed and killed by bandits. During the retreat of the mission, Guan Guxunguang, a member of the mission, disappeared.Historians once believed that Guan Gu died.

However, the discoveries in "Eastern Land Tour and Expedition to the Tang Dynasty" prove that Guan Gu was only separated from the mission, and was rescued by the local people in the process of fleeing.He wanted to go back to Dongyang alone, but because he was not familiar with the geography, he went in the opposite direction. By accident, he finally walked nearly half of the eastern land.

The book has a total of more than 26 characters, and it records in detail what Guan Gu saw and heard during his tour in the east, which has extremely high historical value.

If the proofreader of this book is Shimogawa, then by virtue of this discovery, he will have no problem obtaining a tenured post of classical history at Kyoto University.

The wind that came from nowhere gently blew the pages of this book.The sheets of paper inside were flipped, and the punctuation marks between the sentences became particularly glaring, clearly showing how a dean stole Xiachuan's research results like a robber.

The commas and periods one after another tell of this silent plunder.

What was placed in front of Kitahara and Miyagawa was exactly——

Inexplicable plagiarism.

(End of this chapter)