Conan's Victory is Justice

Chapter 197 Is it a crime to copy your own book?

Sure enough, the next moment, Gu Meimen stood up from her seat.

"In order to bring down a so-called villain and convict him, you have spent a lot of effort."

His words were, as always, tinged with sarcasm.

Kujo Lingzheng frowned even tighter.

"what do you mean?"

"It's nothing, I just sigh."

Gu Meimen smiled slightly.

"Why is your procuratorate so sure that my client must have broken the law?"

"Hmph, the evidence is already obvious, and there are employment contracts and recordings!"

Jiutiaoling sneered.

"Could it be possible, Lawyer Gu Meimen, do you still want to play tricks like before?"

"Don't dare, how dare I play any tricks!"

Gu Meimen quickly waved her hand.

Paused.

The smile on his face was even bigger.

"What I want to say is, how can you be sure that what Mr. Tian Suo copied must be someone else's book?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned.

For a while, no one understood what he meant.

Only Junya Tiansuo, who was on the witness stand, suddenly changed his expression.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Jiutiao Ling shouted sharply.

"It's said in the recording evidence that the witness didn't have enough inspiration when he wrote the book. If he doesn't copy other people's books, how can he still copy his own..."

After saying this, he stopped, and his face changed suddenly.

Horror emerged from his eyes.

Jiutiao Ling was vaguely aware of what Gu Meimen wanted to say.

Gu Meimen snapped her fingers.

"Worthy of being a nine-article prosecutor, it hits the nail on the head."

He said with a smile.

"Before that, I have also read the specific content of these two novels. These two novels are really excellent. I am amazed by the author's unconstrained imagination, and I am deeply fascinated by the plot..."

In the auditorium, Xiao Ai couldn't help curling her lips.

"Bullshit."

How Gu Meimen talked to her before, how she belittled these Japanese light novels, she still remembers clearly.

On the stage, Gu Meimen blew about two novels for a while.

"I have to admit that the two novels have many similarities, and there may indeed be references."

Then, he suddenly changed the subject.

"It's just that, if it's a reference, isn't it unreasonable to learn from it?"

Gu Meimen took out a new printout from the table.

This is also a table comparing passages from the two novels.

"We can look at the description of these two passages."

"The cihuamao left with the fish in its mouth. The sun set and stretched its shadow, leaving only a lonely back. Ah, poor cihuamao!"

"The black cat accepted the confession of the three-flowered female cat. The moonlight shone down and cast a deep shadow. The two cats sat together leaning on each other, quietly enjoying the bright moon. Ah, the love between cats is wonderful. How enviable!"

"..."

Kujo Lingzheng didn't say a word.

Tiansuo Junya pursed his lips and clenched his teeth.

Gu Meimen continued.

"As you can see, these two passages are completely different in terms of context and scene. One is about a stray raccoon cat catching fish to eat, while the other is about the love between cats."

"It stands to reason that if it is a reference, it should not be a reference to a completely different scene."

"However, the writing styles of these two passages are very similar, and even the idioms used are similar."

"Don't you all think that this phenomenon is very unreasonable? Could someone copy a book so similarly?"

"..."

Cold sweat dripped from Toshiya Toshiya's head.

He bit the bullet and argued forcefully.

"What's unreasonable about this? Writers who write novels are used to learning from each other and absorbing each other's strengths to complement themselves. I think the other party's writing style is good, so I went to refer to it and study it. What's so strange?"

Gu Meimen looked at the other person's expression, and the corners of her mouth curled up.

"Are you sure you're just learning from each other's strengths?"

"Of course!"

"Very well, let's take a look at this report."

I saw that Gu Meimen took out a document from the table again.

"This is "The Stray Cihuamao", the original author Takuya Kimura's login IP in the last five updates. I went to the network operation company to check and confirmed that the location of the IP is Roppongi, Tokyo. The specific location is exactly The villa area where Daisuke Torakura lives!"

Paused.

"Excuse me, the original author is a poor writer. Why did he deliberately come to such a place when he updated the new chapter, which has no fit with his own civilian class at all?"

"This this……"

Tian Suo Junzai was sweating profusely, but he didn't know how to answer.

Gu Meimen smiled, slapped the document on the table, and said loudly.

"The only explanation is "The Wandering Cihuamao", the so-called plagiarized work, the real author of this so-called plagiarized work is also written by Mr. Tiansuo! Because you live in Hu Cang's home, when uploading chapters, you use Hucang’s IP address. In other words, you wrote these two books yourself!”

As soon as these words came out, the audience suddenly changed.

This case actually has a turning point!

The plagiarist and the plagiarized are actually the same author!
No one expected this reversal of the plot.

"Let me just say, how could Huhu be so bad!"

"It looks like someone is going to frame him!"

"Who made him so famous, so envious!"

"My lord lawyer is great, I must win the lawsuit and return Huhu's innocence!"

"Tiger must win!"

The female fan who threw away the support card immediately picked it back up and wiped the spit on it.

Here, after Gu Meimen stated her point of view.

The judge on the stage was also slightly taken aback, somewhat unexpected.

The judge is several dozen years old, and he can be regarded as an old judge for many years.

So far, I have been involved in many copyright cases.

But there has never been a case like this.

The plagiarist and the plagiarized are the same person.

To be clear, the witness in this case, Toshiya Tasho, the ghostwriter, copied his own book...

Is it a crime to copy your own book?

The judge didn't know how to judge for a while.

Of course, the Japanese courts practice adversarialism. Whether or not a person breaks the law depends first on the debate on the part of the prosecutor.

"Plaintiff, please state your case."

The judge looked at the prosecutor Kujo Reisha.

At this time, Jiutiao Lingzheng was also sweating on her forehead, she was a little at a loss, and she didn't have the confidence she had before.

He never expected that Gu Meimen really had a backhand.

I can only blame him for being too confident and not investigating the situation carefully in advance.

However, Kutiao Ling had been a prosecutor for more than ten years anyway, and she was well-known in the prosecutor circle.

He patted his cheek, forced himself to calm down, and racked his brains to come up with a countermeasure for the debate.

After a while, he raised his head.

"Even if the two books were written by a witness, and the witness copied his own book, according to the law, it is still not legal!"

(End of this chapter)