Utsunomiya sat in the dock and swallowed. He didn't know how much ammunition the young man in front of him had left to shoot. He didn't know why, but he felt more and more inexplicable pressure from this young man.

Obviously when he first met Beiyuan, his heart was still full of contempt. However, after several encounters, he gradually discovered that this young man was as deep as a bottomless abyss.

Why is it that such a young kid who just graduated can give people such a feeling?

There must be something wrong.

definitely is!

Utsunomiya's whole body tensed slightly and he concentrated on the next evidence.

Kitahara said rather slowly in front of him, "Next, the plaintiff will present evidence to prove that Fujimura's edited work is substantially similar to the sixth, which is the last substantial similarity, between the plaintiff's work and Shimokawa's."

The last one is substantially similar.

Is the... evidence stage... coming to an end? Hearing Kitahara's words, Utsunomiya felt a sense of relief. The court investigation since the second hearing was like a mental torture.

These short two or three hours seemed like decades of suffering.

However, this also means that I cannot take it lightly.

Needless to say, Utsunomiya also knew what Kitahara was going to say next.

This last piece of evidence must be the most critical and important part of proofreading ancient books - adding punctuation marks and segmenting sentences.

Kitahara stood next to the whiteboard, looking at the evidence book in his hand. He knew that the most important and core issues of this lawsuit were about to be touched upon.

The proof stage is the first confrontation on this issue.

Kitahara pressed the remote control in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Next, the plaintiff will present the seventh set of evidence, which is the comparison report No. A789510 issued by the Kyoto Prefecture Kohei Judicial Appraisal Institute. The content of the comparison is - the original text of the ancient book in the whole book

Punctuation marks that break up sentences.”

The projected whiteboard flickered again, and a new table popped up. This time, the locked red part was no longer the font in the text, but the punctuation marks one after another. The tables in the whiteboard continued to float slowly.

, almost all the punctuation points in the ancient text on both sides are marked in red. The red identical punctuation points are like a kaleidoscope, which is immediately dazzling.

"Chief Judge." Beiyuan turned to look at the trial seat, "The most important proofreading work in ancient books is to add punctuation and sentence fragmentation. In ancient Chinese, there is no modern punctuation to assist reading. All words and sentences are written in one place.

For people who have not been trained in ancient Chinese, even experts in literature and history, it is extremely difficult to read an ancient book that has not been added with modern punctuation."

"Due to this aspect of ancient Chinese, it is very difficult to disseminate original classical Chinese books without punctuation. It is through punctuation and punctuation that it is possible for ancient Chinese to be understood by the public. This can make the traditional Chinese text in the true sense

Chinese culture has been resurrected in modern times. It can be seen that punctuation is the core position in the proofreading project of an ancient book. Without punctuation, we would not be able to segment sentences, and we would not be able to understand the sentences in ancient books."

"I don't have to repeat the huge work of adding punctuation and sentence fragmentation to ancient books in court." Beiyuan raised his head, "I only need to give one example. Among the twenty-four histories of Dongtu, there are more than a full

Two thousand scholars and experts invested in it, mobilizing almost the entire historical field to complete the huge classical Chinese revision project."

"However, in this case, all the proofreading results that my client Shimokawa worked so hard to complete were snatched away by Fujimura." Kitahara took a step forward and looked at the defendant's dock opposite, "After comparing the two ancient books with the relevant forensic laboratories,

The punctuation similarity of the two volumes is as high as 98.7%. Excluding some formatting issues with dashes and quotation marks, the punctuation of the two volumes of "Report to the Tang Dynasty" is almost identical."

"Nearly 100% of the punctuation is identical, which is unprecedented and irrefutable evidence that Fujimura took the plaintiff's proofreading manuscript as his own. Considering the huge effort spent on proofreading ancient books, this kind of taking away

The plaintiff’s attorney requests the court to impose the most resolute punishment for violating the fruits of other people’s labor!”

The punctuation marks on the projected whiteboard keep sliding one by one.

The university managers in the auditorium became nervous unconsciously. Before the lawsuit started, they almost unanimously believed that the similarity of punctuation marks could constitute plagiarism. Shimogawa must have caused trouble simply because he could not get tenure.

to vent his anger and retaliate against the school.

However, after today's court hearing, the university's management has also been shaken. Although they still firmly believe that the story of this case is an unfounded lawsuit filed by a teacher who failed to successfully renew his employment, they are already somewhat afraid that the court will be judged by the plaintiff.

The lawyer misleads the public with his lies.

Utsunomiya looked at the scene in front of him, immediately stood up, and fired fiercely: "The chief referee. The plaintiff's evidence opinion just now is completely a speech aimed at sensationalism. It does not have any legal analysis opinion at all. It did not provide an explanation.

It is argued that the repetition of punctuation marks constitutes the so-called similarity that infringes copyright."

Utsunomiya looked at the comparison results on the whiteboard on the screen and said: "Chief referee, the so-called 98.7% duplication of comparison analysis results is an extremely misleading conclusion."

"The plaintiff's attorney directly compared the punctuation marks without considering the function of the punctuation marks. In fact, the most commonly used punctuation marks are nothing more than commas and periods. The comma represents a pause, and the period represents the end of a sentence.

.”

"Take a sentence as an example. There are only a limited number of places where commas and periods can be added. Whether Shimokawa or Fujimura corrects them, they can only produce the same result. Of course, the end of the sentence can only be a period.

, the pause in the middle of the sentence, of course, can only use commas. The way to express a sentence is so limited, repeated punctuation in proofreading is inevitable."

"Considering the limited form of point-based calibration, the so-called high repetition rate claimed by the plaintiff's attorney is not only not a problem. On the contrary, if there is no high repetition rate, it is still abnormal. The plaintiff's so-called comparison report cannot prove the so-called so-called

The repetition is plagiarism. It directly compares modern punctuation marks with common usage. This method has major flaws, and the so-called repetition rate is meaningless!"
Chapter completed!