Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 324 Second Court Session

10 o'clock in the morning.

Courtroom No. 607, Sakyo Ward District Court Trial Building, Kyoto.

Utsunomiya sat on the dock, his eyebrows slightly frowned.He really didn't expect that the time for the second court session would be arranged so quickly.Just a week later, he received another subpoena for a court hearing.Utsunomiya couldn't help but raised his head again, and glanced at Judge Takanashi who was already sitting on the referee's seat.

Didn't this student of mine understand what he meant?

It's obviously the best choice to postpone this case, why didn't she do it?

It seems that he still didn't hint clearly enough, Utsunomiya thought, he must speak more clearly.

Judge Takanashi on the referee's seat looked around the courtroom, and after confirming with the clerk that the identities of those present had been checked, he raised his gavel.

"Click" sound.

There was a crisp knocking sound.

"Shimokawa Yoshihiko v. Fujimura Kayo, Kyoto University, and Kyoto University Press's copyright dispute case is now open for the second trial." The voice of Judge Takanashi announced, "The last trial procedure ended during the court investigation. Now the plaintiff Continue to testify."

Hearing the bang of the hammer, the spectators in the auditorium unconsciously straightened up slightly.

This time, more high-level figures from the school were sitting in the auditorium than last time, including people from the Standing Committee of the School Affairs Committee.The Standing Committee of Kyoto University is, to some extent, equivalent to the directors of a company.However, unlike ordinary company directors, they often also have official positions, and they have a decisive influence whether in academia or in political circles.

In addition to the university figures, there were also many foreigners in the auditorium. Intellectual property law scholars and well-known barristers from all over the East were also present in this lawsuit.The impact of this case has been growing.

Beiyuan looked at the big men who were either rich or expensive in the auditorium, and then looked sideways at Judge Takanashi.In such a short period of time, under the watchful eyes of many people, a second court session can be arranged again.Presumably, the chief referee should have suffered a lot of pressure during this time.

Judge Takanashi, thank you very much.

Holding the remote control in his hand, Beiyuan stood up in the plaintiff's seat.

The clerk in the middle turned the button on the table to dim the lights in the courtroom a bit, so that the light from the projector could become clearer.

Kitahara looked at Utsunomiya across the street, and said, "Last trial. The plaintiff has provided evidence to prove that the defendant Fujimura's proofreading of "A Parade to Tang Dynasty in the East", and the third draft of the plaintiff's proofreading have plagiarized style and copy. The plaintiff Will continue to demonstrate the substantial similarity between the two works."

All eyes in the court were on the young lawyer, and they couldn't help but wonder from what other angles he could attack.

The male lawyer lightly pressed the remote control on his hand.From the projected content on the whiteboard, one table after another emerged.The contents of the form are all excerpts from ancient texts in Ji Tang Ji.However, the difference is that one or two words in these selected ancient Chinese sentences are marked in red.For a moment, people didn't understand what exactly this table was comparing.

"Next, the plaintiff presents the fourth set of evidence, which is the collation and comparison report of the two works." Bei Yuan's voice sounded, "It is intended to prove the third substantial similarity between the two works—that is, the collation and plagiarism!"

As soon as the words "collation and plagiarism" were uttered, it was as if a shell fell on the court and exploded. The young lawyer launched a fierce offensive again.

Beiyuan continued: "The so-called collation is to correct typos and omissions in ancient books. Due to the lack of printing in ancient times, or even if printing existed, the cost of using it was very high. Therefore, the copying of ancient books is often done by hand copying In the process of copying, there will inevitably be typos and omissions. Therefore, an important proofreading work in ancient books is to correct these typos and omissions.”

"During the proofreading process, my client Xiachuan corrected a total of 568 typos and omissions in Tang Ji." Beiyuan looked at the whiteboard behind him, "The left side of the form is the sentence excerpts that the plaintiff corrected. And on the right On the other side, it is an excerpt of the same sentence in the defendant Fujimura's version of Tang Ji."

"Through the comparison, it is found that the defendant and the plaintiff have more than 90% of the same content in the correction of typos. For example, the third chapter of the first volume of Qian Tang Ji. The original sentence shown in the original copy is,'Fu Xing Erri Returning home, Yu Hengruan is on the bed, exhausted'. This sentence is about the Tang envoy Guan Gu who wanted to climb the big mountain, but encountered difficulties and had to go back to the inn to rest. The original "Yu Hengruan is on the bed" If the word is suspected to be wrong, Xiachuan then changed it to 'lie'. That is, 'Yu lying on the bed'."

On the screen, lines of sentences are constantly scrolling.The projector light reflected from the whiteboard illuminated the dignified expressions of the university students in the auditorium.

"Let's look at the next one." Beiyuan continued, "The fifth chapter of the first volume of the Tang Dynasty. The original sentence shown in the original text is, 'The elders in the city brought them to the first person to send them off, and then gave them horse gear and dry food.' What I said here It was the elders of Mincheng who took people to see them off when they set off in Guangu, and presented them with horse gear and dry food. Among them, the word "Yu Di" in "the elders in the city bring them to the second party" has no clear meaning. The plaintiff Shimochuansui corrected It is 'children'. That is, 'the elders in the city bring their children to send them off'."

"For another example, in the first chapter of the second volume of the Tang Dynasty, 'The sky is cold, and the official road on the snowy road is only the postman and the other person." Guarded by a soldier. Among them, 'the other person alone' is suspected to be 'one person alone', and the plaintiff Xiachuan school is 'one person alone.'”

"For another example, the second chapter of the third volume of the Tang Dynasty is sent to the Tang Dynasty. "Chunkai. Yu wrote a book to attach to the capital". This sentence is about the spring, after the snow melted, the Tang envoy Guan Gu wrote a letter in Longyou Road and sent it to Chang'an. Among them' The word appended with 'is suspected to be 'pay'. The plaintiff, Xia Chuan, then corrected it as 'Yu wrote the book to pay the capital'."

"Everything and so on. The plaintiff, Shimogawa, has made extremely careful corrections." Beiyuan walked to the right side of the whiteboard, "However—what is surprising is that the text of the Tang Dynasty written by the defendant, Fujimura, also appeared the same. You can see that Fujimura’s proofreading of the four typos I mentioned just now has been corrected exactly the same.”

The projected whiteboard is displaying the example sentence that Beiyuan just mentioned. On both sides of the form are PDF screenshots scanned from two books, with red fonts - "lay", "children", "zero", "pay", It irrefutably confirmed what Beiyuan said.

Beiyuan turned and looked at the judging seat, "Chief judge! There are exactly 513 identical corrections of the same typos like this. If the infringing works involved in the case were proofread by Fujimura alone, why is there such a huge number of typos and other corrections?" Repetition? This is simply unimaginable for literary and historical work. The above 513 similarities show that Fujimura constituted plagiarism in the process of checking and revising Tang Ji! It belongs to the substantive similarity in the determination of copyright infringement!"

(End of this chapter)