IRIS served with plagiarism suit
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KBS’s hit spy drama IRIS has found itself entangled in plagiarism charges. On December 7, novelist Park Chul-joo filed a suit with Seoul Central District Court accusing the drama’s production company of ripping off his spy novel The Sun Doesn’t Rise on Mt. Fuji.
In his complaint, writer Park asserted that the drama takes the story, situations, and developments from his own book: “The drama IRIS heavily plagiarized my novel in over 162 instances. I have suffered severe mental distress, and I’ve also suffered financial losses, as I have had to give up the chance to produce the book as my own drama.” Included in the allegedly plagiarized points are: the threat of nuclear explosion in the middle of the city, the hero’s confrontation with the North Korean female spy, and the fact that the North Korean spy falls for the hero who treated her injuries.
According to Yonhap News, the production company refuted the claims, saying, “The plot may be similar, but it is not plagiarism.”
Often I think these plagiarism claims are cases of unfortunate coincidences — you can’t own an idea, after all. But these do sound like pretty specific points, although without having read the book, it’s hard to say…
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 01:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:49 am (UTC)Also the threat of nuclear explosion in the middle of the city, the hero’s confrontation with the North Korean female spy, and the fact that the North Korean spy falls for the hero who treated her injuries
Sorry, this just sounds like any generic spy thriller set in Korea. Hell this sounds like any James Bond film only replace "North Korea" with any generic location. So these do not "sound like pretty specific points" to me. LAWSUIT FAIL.
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:50 am (UTC)but yeah - it seems pretty cliche
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:51 am (UTC)But those examples do seem quite specific... pshh.
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:53 am (UTC)Whatever soonnnnnnn.
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:55 am (UTC)But seriously, I JUST started watching this show dammit. DO NOT TAKE IT FROM ME. D:
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 02:02 am (UTC)IT DRAWS YOU BACK INNNN.
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:00 am (UTC)2009, FUCK YOU. :D
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:09 am (UTC)but to claim plagiarism over cliche plotlines is kinda, idk, over reacting.
there are commonalities in just about every genre out there.
that would be like a romance novelist claiming plagiarism over another author having the duke fall in love with the maid who was once a princess but is now impoverished, cause in her book the prince fell in love with the duchess who is now a maid after becoming impoverished.
its cliched storytelling. meaning anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse. it happens.
now if scene for scene is pretty much the same and all that is changed is names and general character backgrounds then you've got a case.
otherwise, not so much.
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:02 am (UTC)All I know is that the word plagiarism isn't what it used to be.
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:02 am (UTC)hell i'm pretty sure something like that might have happened on 24.
unless they are scenes straight out of his novel, scene for scene then this lawsuit is dumb.
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:05 am (UTC)A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY DRAMA WITH
- A THREAT OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
- CONFRONTATION WITH THE ENEMY
- THE ENEMY FALLING FOR TARGET
GOOD LORD, THIS IS A PLAGIARISM CASE IF I EVER SAW ONE! I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE THESE PLOT POINTS ARE A STAPLE IN EVERY SPY THRILLER EVER!!!! especially the nuclear warfare threat, that is SUCH a unique idea. JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:06 am (UTC)lol IASM
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:05 am (UTC)Doesn't every spy drama have something like this?
"Hero's confrontation with the North Korean female spy"
That also tend to have this.
I say just think of James Bond. There's explosions in cities, and Bond always meets the female spy from the other team and sexes her then kills her.
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:24 am (UTC)hell she wanted to kill him once, and he just sexed her and she got over the fact that he killed her lover.
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:21 am (UTC)don't be delayin' any TOP screen time damnit >:cno subject
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