Apologizing after infringement is not the original intention of the law."Hot Blood Chang 'an" acknowledges plagiarism and is not worthy of praise

What the law can decide is the result of the handling of incidents. In addition to the reverence for the law, what is indispensable is the conscience of art. Otherwise, if you mix up like that, you will become synonymous with drama and plagiarism in the hearts of ordinary audiences. How much respect can you get in the industry?

Original title: "Hot Blood Chang 'an" admits that plagiarism is not worthy of praise.

What the law can decide is the result of the handling of the incident. In the hearts of those involved, in addition to their reverence for the law, what is indispensable is their artistic conscience. Otherwise, if you mix up like that, you will become synonymous with drama and plagiarism in the hearts of ordinary audiences. How much respect can you get in the industry?

You can be praised for admitting mistakes after plagiarism. Is there a bottom line in the film and television industry?

A few days ago, the producer of the online drama "Hot Blood Chang 'an" suddenly issued an official announcement, publicly admitting that the fourth episode of the series plagiarized the section "Ghost Pen Holder" in the stormy novel "Zhang Gong Case", publicly apologizing and promising to follow up. Further measures will be taken to properly handle it. At the same time, the editor of the original drama publicly issued a letter of apology, in which he admitted plagiarism and called on society to respect copyright.

As of now,"Hot Blood Chang 'an" has terminated its cooperation with the screenwriter and has offline the fourth episode of alleged plagiarism. Due to the producer's sincere attitude and correction of mistakes, netizens have praised one after another. Some netizens generously said that it is not "one episode of plagiarism ruins a drama" and are very optimistic about the production level of "Hot Blood Chang 'an".

Indeed, in the current entertainment industry, where infringement is rampant and plagiarism is a common practice, although the producers and screenwriters of "Hot Blood Chang 'an" who face infringement disputes and have the courage to take responsibility have made mistakes first, they have still become a "clear stream" and are frequently involved in the incident. colleagues in the circle have set an example worthy of being looked after. As Yu Fei, the screenwriter entrusted to compare the two works, said on Weibo, the follow-up treatment is obviously "positive."

The purpose of praising the behavior of knowing and correcting mistakes is to promote the awareness of respecting the rights of others. For this circle and even the entire society, it is obviously only a primary goal. The legislative spirit of the Copyright Law finally took a step back in the face of the social reality that was unable to complain.

Once upon a time, movies and TV series attached great importance to the original works and screenwriters, and the screenwriters themselves also had a strong sense of responsibility for their careers. For example, in the old version of the Four Great Classics, the screenwriter will even notice each unimportant prop during the script creation. But today, the mercenary impetuosity in the film and television industry pervades every corner."Shocking" and "divine dramas" appear frequently in the world. There are increasingly few good works that truly impress people. Although the film and television works seem to have ushered in a "golden age" of "extremely rich", the reality is regrettable.

In such an environment,"not copying" has become a bottom-line requirement.

Apologizing after infringement is not the original intention of the Copyright Law

. It is a policy law. The Intellectual Property Law, with the Copyright Law as one of its main components, builds a barrier for products (such as works) that can be obtained without paying any price. The barrier of protection requires the public to pay a certain price when obtaining such knowledge results (for example, if you want to read novels, you need to buy books, if you want to watch movies, you need to buy movie tickets, etc.).

Through market means, authors can be rewarded, thereby forming incentives for authors to continue to create more excellent literary and artistic works and promoting the prosperity of social literary and artistic achievements; while other creators use other people's works, they also have to pay a corresponding price (such as Intellectual property license fees) can also encourage them to create spontaneously as much as possible.

However, after apologizing after infringement, plagiarism has also occurred. Although stopping infringement similar to offline corresponding dramas can eliminate the negative impact of copyright infringement to a certain extent, it still does not fully meet the legislative expectations of the Copyright Law. More bluntly, the expectation of the Copyright Law is not to apologize for doing something wrong, but to do something right within the scope permitted by the law. The so-called right thing is that the author independently creates more original and good works.

So far,"Peach Blossom", another work that was also suspected of plagiarizing "Peach Blossom Debt","has still not given a positive and definitive response to the plagiarism controversy, but said that Dafeng could resort to legal means to defend his rights. However, resorting to legal means is not only a time-consuming and labor-intensive question like Qiong Yao's lament in Yu Zhengshi's lawsuit that "ruined my year", but also as Feng Feng said, whether the suspected plagiarism works will take advantage of a lawsuit to hit the hot spot. Even if the lawsuit is lost, the loss will be minimal because the main "life cycle" has passed in the rapid market update iteration.

Real respect for the rights of others lies in facing the fact of whether they have plagiarized, apologizing, stopping the infringement, and compensating others for the losses suffered by them. There is no plagiarism at all, and we should also firmly defend our reputation and safeguard our legitimate rights and interests. The true respect for copyright law lies in creating excellent and original works, rather than just expressing helplessness and leaving it to the law. What the law can decide is the result of the handling of incidents. In addition to the reverence for the law, what is indispensable is the conscience of art. Otherwise, if you mix up, you will become synonymous with drama and plagiarism in the hearts of ordinary audiences. How much respect can you get in the industry?

When people encounter unfair things, they always say that they hope the law will "restore justice to themselves." However, most unfair things are artificial. How can justice wait for the bottom line of the law to "repay"? Consciously respecting the rights of others and creating your own original works can not only create social value, but also make disputes impossible, which is the best policy; for example,"Hot Blood Chang 'an" generally has mistakes first, but knowing mistakes can be corrected and making up for them after they have passed is the middle policy; It is the worst policy to not be self-disciplined, get involved in incidents, and sit back and wait for legal adjudication with a chance mentality.

I still hope that the film and television industry will not make such a bad plan in the future.

Editor: Nancy