Someone said: "Plagiarists all cling to utilitarian reverie, waiting for glory that does not belong to them." In real life, there are "plagiarism" incidents that are broken at a poke and are put on the cusp of the wind. In the Chinese book world in May 2021, there was a plagiarism and plagiarism incident that was pierced by a bullseye - "Zeng Jinxi suspected of plagiarism and won the Lanting Award". Zeng Jinxi dared to use a low-level mistake at the "Lanting Award" to edit, piece together, and copy the works of Su Dongpo and He Shaoji, and put a beautiful coat on his own works, so he fell into a wave of condemnation, and the Chinese Calligraphers Association responded to people's concerns by disqualifying Zeng Jinxi from being selected. "A mistake is a thousand years of hatred." This result is a pity for the reputation of a bookmaker.
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Those who are diligent in melting stems, washing manuscripts, and plagiarizing are often shameless and blatant. Not long ago, a literary friend told me: "You have met the literary 'Li ghost', and more than ten of your articles have been copied in the WeChat 'Time and Space Garden 2' public account." "I searched in WeChat in a stunned way, and sure enough, these articles that I published in the newspaper that carried the local palm of the past were actually copied as they were and replaced with the name of "Wang Gongjian". The most ironic thing is that an article I wrote called "A Maple Leaf Is Different red" has also been plagiarized, this article is a drama review of the Jin opera "Gao Junyu and Shi Pingmei", it is a social article I wrote to the screenwriter of the play, Liu Jizhong, the plagiarist Wang Gongjian does not know for what purpose, even people who have nothing to do with him are also regarded as the scope of dissemination... In the dialog box of this public account, I politely stated that I am the right holder of more than 10 articles, asking to remove the articles, but the other party did not know the stakes, ignored it, and still calmly hung in this public account. I was deeply surprised, a sigh, this public account is obviously unscrupulous, suddenly do not spit unhappy, let rely on small cleverness in the literary world of "habitual stealing" hidden. In the Internet era of media integration and knowledge sharing, reading materials have changed from scarce to abundant at the moment, the public account to "traffic first" as their responsibility, it has become a "plagiarism extremely hard-hit area", some public accounts think that "a large copy of ancient articles", "copy" is a matter of course, the power of "copy" will travel farther away, and it will harm the original spirit with the attitude of the master. In fact, only methods can be learned. In his speech in Sweden, Mo Yan mentioned that he was influenced by Márquez and was able to distinguish himself in his narrative style, word imagery, viewing angle, and concept of time and space. Although Mo Yan and Márquez have an inseparable relationship, they are not the same. Many of Mo Yan's contemporaries, who made a living by chasing trends and imitating others, were also integrated into the literary world. Writing has always been a painstaking affair. What is particularly valuable is the originals, they hide a long thinking, every day without the supervision of others to do things according to the schedule, this from the heart to write, covering reading accumulation, material research, experience and other internal forces, and find the opportunity to bloom, but also won the reader's popularity, can be described as "the world is insightful and learned, human emotions are all articles." Nowadays, cultural products are becoming more and more abundant, and some artists laughed and said: "Art rights protection has become the second profession of artists." The expression of this emotion hides anxiety and apprehension, allowing the original author to wander in the chaotic zone of "original" and "pseudo-original", but there will be a certain time cost, economic cost and intellectual cost to solve the "pen and ink lawsuit" of the rights protection of the work.
In the Etymology, plagiarism is explained as: "Stealing words written by others as your own." "Plagiarism has no excuse for "extenuating circumstances", which is like deception and belongs to the moral category. Plagiarists are all out of stock, hard squeeze is not squeezed out, in their dictionary, there is no word "original". They "do not copy, do not live", so they have "old tunes and new bullets", "makeovers", "split articles", "over-quotes", "set of changes and splicing" tricks, the most unquestionable is "total plagiarism". The psychological weakness of the plagiarist is that he has no confidence in his own creation and imagination, in other words, he looks down on himself. When they are faced with the favorite article, like a buffet without charge, they encounter all kinds of delicacies in a dazzling way, and the heat is unabated, extending their arms to take as they please, satisfying the taste and reveling in the "nightmare" of seizing fame and fortune. From this, I am reminded of a very early reading of a material that the University of California, Berkeley, after 15 years of research, published a latest research result, pointing out that plagiarism may not be a deliberate act, but a manifestation of intellectual disability. Plagiarists are addicted, and even if they become famous, they do not want to wash white, which is hailed as a typical "congenital intellectual disability". In recent years, the phenomenon of suspected "copying other people's photographic works" in art exhibitions has aroused widespread concern in society and involved plagiarism infringement. The China Artists Association issued the "Announcement on Supervising the Infringement of Plagiarism of Works exhibited in Fine Arts Exhibitions", and once the infringement of exhibited works was verified, the exhibition was withdrawn as soon as possible, and the infringing works of plagiarism were resolutely said "no". Even if it does not involve infringement, copying the pictures taken by oneself and "painting photos" can easily limit artistic creativity. At a time when the call for masterpieces and the strengthening of copyright awareness are so clear, plagiarism is like a lewd swimming naked on the beach, and after the tide recedes, the evil deeds will appear on their own. There is only one purpose, to mobilize natural and legal persons with intellectual property rights to defend cultural rights, to use legal means to make infringers pay a heavy price, so that every original is treated kindly, every high-quality work is respected, and high-quality original products will blow out, better meet our aesthetics, and illuminate our spiritual world.