Things are not going well.

Something is really wrong.

Utsunomiya's brows twitched slightly. He had never thought that the young man in front of him would actually prove the similarity between the two edited works from such a tricky angle. He was indeed negligent and did not pay attention to the original version.

However, on the other hand, since I had never seen Shimokawa's proofreading manuscript, I had no way of discovering these problems. The more than 7,000 pages of materials submitted by Beihara in advance were deliberately arranged in a messy and scattered manner.

The arrangement makes it difficult for people to grasp the key points of the evidence he wants to prove.

Utsunomiya raised his head and looked at the male lawyer in front of him. In a trance, he seemed to see the figure of a hunter in the snowy mountains. He was quietly dormant there, motionless, with the double-barreled shotgun in his hand, waiting for prey.

The moment it appears, it will be fired violently at any time.

Previously, Utsunomiya had hidden all his legal opinions. He had always believed that he would rely on raids to gain a great advantage in this lawsuit.

However, it now seems that the real surprise attack in this lawsuit was actually Beiyuan!

He did not produce the third draft of Shimokawa's review until the trial. Before that, he had never seen Shimokawa's review of the manuscript, and all the cases were deployed based on Fujimura's report.

Now it seems that it was really a mistake! A mistake!!

In the courtroom, Kitahara listed one place after another in the Kiyomasa Garden version of Fujimura that the words and phrases in the Mustard Garden version of "Eastern Land Parade to the Tang Dynasty" appeared repeatedly. The young lawyer told the court very patiently and methodically

Showing these similarities. His words echoed in the courtroom, which was a torture for all Kyoto University administrators.

Time seems to move extremely slowly.

Kitahara gave evidence for nearly 50 minutes on the plagiarism of the manuscript. These more than 300 similar words almost irrefutably proved that the real manuscript on which Fujimura’s proofreading was based was the Kasabien edition, not the Kiyoshien edition. Every time the screen scrolled,

Every single word that was similar made the university management sitting in the auditorium frightened. The male lawyer in particular seemed to be aware of the emotions of the audience, and spoke more deliberately and slowly.

Come.

Every word, like a sharp steel wire, winds around the hearts of college students and twists slowly, pushing this mental tension to a higher level.

To the university management, these 50 minutes of evidence seemed like an entire century had passed.

"Above, the plaintiff's second substantive similarity has been proved." Kitahara smiled slightly and bowed to Judge Takanashi on the bench.

Utsunomiya had a gloomy look on his face. The moment Kitahara's words fell, the famous law professor immediately stood up and retorted: "President. The plaintiff himself also admitted that the number of original copies of "The Journey to the Eastern Lands to the Tang Dynasty" is as high as seventeen.

As a historian, it is very normal for him to use a certain manuscript as a basis and refer to other manuscripts to make corrections when revising."

Utsunomiya held the "Eastern Land Parade to the Tang Dynasty" published by Fujimura, turned to the copyright title page, pointed to the text on it, and said: "The plaintiff also deliberately distorted the expression on the copyright title page. Indeed, the title page stated that the defendant

The manuscript on which the dianxuan works is based is the Qingzheng Yuan edition, but this does not mean that the Qingzheng Yuan edition is the only manuscript on which the works of the dianxuan are based. What it really means is that the main manuscript is the Qingzheng Yuan edition."

"Therefore, it is absolutely normal for the words to appear similar to what the defendant just said!" Utsunomiya said coldly.

Listening to the famous professor's refutation, Kitahara immediately responded, "The problem is not that these corrections are based on the Mustard Seed Garden version. The problem is that the comparison results show that the defendant's choice of version has no way of reflecting the original version.

This is the Qingzheng Yuan version!"

Groups of data on the projection whiteboard kept sliding. The pie charts and bar charts confirmed, or at least seemed to confirm, the words of the Kitahara lawyer.

Utsunomiya frowned. Since he had not received the third draft from Shimokawa before, he could not refute these complicated comparison results on the spot.

However, he is an authority on Japanese intellectual property law after all. After thinking for a while, he spoke again: "To say the least, even if the original text is the same, it does not meet the plaintiff's so-called plagiarism. Even if the two edited works are

Does choosing the same manuscript constitute plagiarism?! The plaintiff is obviously abusing the idea of ​​'plagiarizing' once!"

"The selection of the manuscript is just an action. In the action itself, there is no expression of creation at all. I would like to ask, does the defendant choose the same manuscript as the plaintiff for proofreading, which will constitute plagiarism? This is simply nonsense.

Talk about the case. The "Eastern Land Parade to the Tang Dynasty" involved in the case is a work that has entered the public domain. Shiachuan can choose the Mustard Seed Garden version for editing, and other scholars can also choose the Mustard Seed Garden version for editing. We cannot say that Shiachuan chose the Mustard Seed Garden version.

If the Garden version is revised, other scholars will no longer be able to choose the Mustard Seed Garden version."

Utsunomiya walked in court, "To give a similar example, let's take translation. Suppose a foreign novel has a second edition and a third edition. The two editions have their own advantages and disadvantages. In this regard, there are translators who choose

I chose the second edition of the novel for translation, and another translator also selected the second edition of the novel for translation. Could this choice be plagiarism?”

"What I want to emphasize to the court is that the plaintiff's claim of plagiarism is an untenable concept. The choice of the original is just a choice. It does not contain any creative factors at all. In this selection process, no originality appears.

.How can a mere choice of actions constitute plagiarism?”

"I would like to ask, did the selection process itself create any text, sound, or image? No, no new material was created. In this case, not even new material was produced, so how can we talk about plagiarism?

"

"According to this, the plaintiff's claim of plagiarism is not established at all. The so-called words used in the evidence are the same and have no relevance to the facts to be proved, and have no connection with the purpose of proof!"

Utsunomiya's sharp refutation came like a rolling wave. In less than a moment, he was able to make such a legal argument in response, which unparalleledly demonstrated the profound legal knowledge of this famous professor. This Toyo

The title of vice-president of the Intellectual Property Law Society is by no means a mere claim to fame, but a real one.

In the courtroom, these two figures faced each other.

One is a young lawyer who has just graduated from Tokyo University, and the other is an authority in Japanese law.
Chapter completed!