Second, plagiarism has NOTHING TO DO with copyright infringement, and copyright has nothing to do with plagiarism. They still have their knowledge and information. "if you have taken someone's jokes or story and passed them off as your own, that's "plagarism.""įirst, you cannot literally "take" a joke or story from someone: you can emulate or build on it or duplicate it, but you cannot "take it" from them. Even Juge Posner, in applying statist positive law, recognizes that copyright infringement is not stealing. Kingvermin: "I think you have a much different idea of what "copying" and "theft" are, and your article about Judge Posner and his opinion on uploading videos has nothing to do with Mr. I have material at explaining why IP law is illegitimate. I am a pro-property rights libertarian and an intellectual property attorney, by the way. Patent and copyright law are horrible systems that are derogations from the free market: they are anti-competitive grants of monopoly privilege by a criminal state, that violate property rights. Why should we prevent it from happening? There is nothing wrong with copying, learning, emulating, competing. So that's a thorny question: if they don't have laws against it, how can we prevent it from happening?"
The Chinese government seems not to care one whit about copyright. "I heard that there are books published in China that take fan fiction twelve steps further: there are multiple Harry Potter books written by Chinese citizens with Chinese themes. The reason people in favor of copyright insist on labeling it as stealing, even though it is not, is there is a negative association with "stealing." They are trying to dishonestly shift the debate by using incorrect descriptions, to make copyright law seem justified and to make copyright infringement seem like "theft." At most, it is copyright infringement-that is, it is violating a positive law decreed by bureaucrats. It is simply literally false to call copying information "stealing." It is not even "taking." It is not theft, and it is not piracy. "Stephan, you can split hairs, but taking someone else's idea is stealing." writers deserve compensation and Chinese viewers deserve original television. I can only hope that public pressure and legal consequences force them to stop or better yet, to shut down production. They’re not creative people, they’re thieves. To implore the producers of iPARTMENT to stop stealing is I’m sure pointless. Someone in China can recognize the plagiary and with one click alert the entire world. I can sit in Los Angeles and watch iPARTMENT online. Morgan, and the Real Don Steele and the Real Pete McNeal and the True Don Blu.īut today we live in a global world with instantaneous communication. If a jock in Buffalo was imitating a jock in San Francisco, how many Buffalo listeners would ever know? That’s why you had Emperor Bob and Emperor Gene and Emperor Don, and Robert W. In the heyday of Top 40 radio, disc jockeys in one market would blatantly steal the acts of disc jockeys in another.
iPARTMENT is essentially saying Chinese writers aren’t good enough so they have to steal from America. So will they? Or are they willing to look the other way so as not to ruffle feathers? It may be more important to establish good relationships with Chinese networks and producers for future ventures.īut again, if the allegations are true, it’s reprehensible – not just to our writers but to China’s writers. version they stole? I guess the question is, can you sue China? I doubt if individual writers have the clout but the studios sure do. The producers can deny all they want but how hard will it be to compare a translated episode of their show to the U.S. But they’ve already had to apologize to one screenwriter for stealing jokes he posted online.Ĭritics have said the show is 40 minutes – 30 minutes of directly stealing a US sitcom story and 10 minutes of jokes stolen from other sources. And they’re just using stock sitcom character types.
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The iPARTMENT producers of course deny any wrongdoing and claim their series is an homage to American sitcoms.
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