The lights in the court dimmed a bit. The door to the trial court was also tightly closed, leaving no gaps. The beam of a small projector hit the whiteboard at the plaintiff's seat, and a huge table comparison appeared. At the same time, in the table

There are also various pie charts on the side, showing the comparison results of different data.

The university management in the auditorium all looked at the young male lawyer standing next to the whiteboard. Many of them looked at him unkindly. After all, this lawyer had a record of blackmailing large listed companies before.

Now, on behalf of a prospective professor who is about to be expelled from the university, he is accusing the so-called plagiarism. If he is not trying to attract attention, what is it?

Utsunomiya looked at the male lawyer in front of him with contemptuous eyes. The main thing in correcting ancient books was punctuation marks. He didn't believe that Kitahara could make any trouble in proving the similarity between the two books. He thought so.

Then, Utsunomiya sat in the dock more calmly and crossed his legs.

Beiyuan felt the unfriendly eyes on the court and smiled slightly.

Those who are good at attacking will move above the nine heavens.

Attack what others cannot defend.

Kitahara straightened up slightly and said: "The plaintiff now presents the third set of evidence. The first piece of evidence is the notarization certificate No. A986631 from the Kyoto Prefectural Kosho Notary Office. The content is that the plaintiff, under the witness of the notary office personnel, obtained the certificate from the Kyoto University campus bookstore.

The company purchased the infringing work "The Journey to the East".

"The second piece of evidence is a comparative analysis report on the above-mentioned purchased "Eastern Land Parade to the Tang Dynasty" and the third draft of the proofreading extracted from the plaintiff Shimokawa's laptop. The comparative analysis report lists the two proofreading works in detail

similarities.

Kitahara deliberately paused for a moment, then grinned slightly, "The plaintiff now provides evidence that the two edited works constitute the first item of plagiarism that is substantially similar - plagiarism of style!"

The style is plagiarized!? Utsunomiya sat in his seat, his eyes widened a bit, and he immediately looked at the projector in front of him. The first unfolding in front of him seemed to be different from what he expected.

To be honest, Utsunomiya has not read Shimokawa's so-called third draft of proofreading. His understanding of the content of the work of proofreading ancient prose comes from Fujimura's narrative. According to him, the biggest workload in proofreading ancient prose is

Punctuation and sentence fragmentation. But what happened to the plagiarism of style that suddenly appeared in front of me?!

Kitahara looked at Judge Takanashi on the stage and said, "Chief Judge, the proofreading work in this case is not simply a proofreading of the Chronicle of Sent to the Tang Dynasty. The entire work also includes a preface, a biography of Sekigu Hiro, the envoy to the Tang Dynasty, a preface and postscript to the old collection, and anecdotes of Sekitani.

Rumors, including 11 anecdotes, the appendix includes a summary of Guan Gu’s life, poems and essays presented by Tang official Wang Luyi, acknowledgments, and Guan Gu’s experiences during his tour of the ancient sites in the East.”

"In addition to reviewing the "Report to the Tang Dynasty", the plaintiff also compiled the collected works of Guangu and collected his lost articles and poems. The plaintiff also went to various places to investigate and discovered the notes of Guangu left behind by local archives and natural history records.

, Shimokawa collected a total of 36 pieces of writing, 17 poems, 11 anecdotes and 8 other miscellaneous notes that had been previously identified as lost. Plaintiff Shimokawa carefully selected and arranged the content collected above."

"On the other hand, the defendant Fujimura published the "Report to the Tang Dynasty." Kitahara suddenly raised his voice, "The edited works he published contain the above content exactly, that is, 36 pieces of lost writing, 17 poems, anecdotes and rumors

11 articles, 8 other miscellaneous articles.”

"Not only are all the recorded articles the same, but the order of arrangement is exactly the same!" Kitahara pressed the button on the remote control in his hand.

In an instant, the proofreading of two "Eastern Tours to the Tang Dynasty" appeared on the projector whiteboard.

However, I found that the collated catalogs of the two ancient books were compared with each other and were almost consistent.

It's just that the "Eastern Land Parade to the Tang Dynasty" published by Fujimura has an extra postscript.

The rest of the arrangement sequence is exactly the same as the catalog sequence of the Xiachuan ancient book proofreading manuscript.

Under the comparison chart, the identical arrangement order immediately made the text in the table of contents of Fujimura's edited work extremely dazzling.

This catalog comparison picture is like swinging an iron bar and slapping the university administrators in the dock. Just now, the university administrators who were secretly mocking Kitahara as just a blackmail lawyer suddenly changed their expressions.

They became livid, and some people's brows couldn't help but tremble.

Utsunomiya looked at the almost identical catalogs in front of him and was stunned for a moment. After he realized what he was doing, his inner anger towards Fujimura suddenly ignited. Damn this Fujimura! Why can he even adjust the order of the catalogs!! Is he mentally retarded?

!

Utsunomiya was misled by Fujimura when he was reading "The Journey to the Eastern Lands to the Tang Dynasty". He also specifically asked where the incidental materials outside the main text came from. Fujimura told him that these materials had been sorted out long ago and were ready-made.

Yes, it was just put in. However, according to Kitahara just now, these are all articles and poems that were lost before. They were only discovered by Shimokawa after a field visit to the archives, and they were arranged in a certain specific order.

.

There's trouble now.

Utsunomiya knows that according to the provisions of the Copyright Act, compilation works may constitute works that qualify for legal protection if certain conditions are met.

It would be terrible if, by any chance, it was determined to constitute a compilation work.

Utsunomiya immediately stood up and said: "Chief Judge, the order of catalogues advocated by the plaintiff just now is not appropriate for the point of view of substantial similarity. These compiled collections and poems are all ancient articles. For the arrangement of ancient articles

The sequence does not constitute an original expression and is not an object of protection under copyright law, so it should not be included in the scope of substantial similarity."

Kitahara smiled coldly, "The defendant's attorney. Now is the court investigation stage. He is investigating the facts, not issuing a legal opinion. Whether the order of arrangement is the protected object of the copyright law is a legal issue, not a factual issue.

.I would like to ask the defendant’s attorney whether he has any objection to the similarity of the directory sequence itself!”

Utsunomiya was choked by this sudden rhetorical question. He just opened his mouth, but could not say anything to refute the young male lawyer.

Yes, I was stunned.

A well-known and authoritative professor of Japanese intellectual property law was actually questioned by a young newly graduated lawyer in a copyright case.

Utsunomiya felt angry and annoyed for a moment, but he couldn't help it when he was in court. The judge on the stage was his student, and there were many people from inside and outside the school, as well as media reporters in the audience.

This Fujimura! It’s really going to cause trouble!

Kitahara looked at the law professor, took a step forward, and pressed the remote control in his hand. The power was even stronger than Utsunomiya's aura, "The method of proof just presented is plagiarism. It's just that the two works are substantially similar."
Chapter completed!