Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 334 The Last Substantial Similarity

Sitting on the dock, Utsunomiya swallowed.He didn't know how much ammunition the young man in front of him could shoot.For some reason, he felt more and more inexplicable pressure from this young man.When Mingming saw this Beiyuan for the first time, his heart was still full of contempt.However, after several fights, he gradually discovered that this young man was like a bottomless abyss, unfathomable.

Why is it that such a little kid who just graduated can give people such a feeling.

There must be something wrong.

definitely is!

Utsunomiya's whole body tensed up slightly, and he concentrated all his attention to deal with the next proof.

Kitahara in front of him said rather slowly, "Next, the plaintiff will present evidence to prove that Fujimura's proofreading work is substantially similar to the plaintiff Shimogawa's sixth, that is, the last substantial similarity."

The last one is substantially similar.

The stage of presenting... the proof is... is it coming to an end?Hearing Kitahara's words, Utsunomiya felt relieved.The court investigation since the second trial was like a mental torture.In just two or three hours, it seemed like decades of suffering.

However, this also means that I cannot take it lightly.

Needless to say, Utsunomiya also knew what Kitahara was going to say next.

This last proof must be the most critical and important part in the collation of ancient books-adding punctuation marks and severing sentences.

Bei Yuan stood beside the whiteboard, looking at the evidence booklet in his hand.He knew that the most important and core issue of this lawsuit was about to be touched.

The proof stage is the first confrontation on this issue.

Beiyuan pressed the remote control in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Next, the plaintiff presents the seventh set of evidence, which is the comparison report No. A789510 issued by the Kyoto Prefecture Equity Judicial Appraisal Office. The content of the comparison is—the whole book versus the original text of ancient books. Punctuation marks for punctuation."

The projection whiteboard flickered again, and a new form popped up.This time, the locked red part is no longer the font in the text, but the punctuation marks one after another.The tables on the whiteboard kept floating slowly, and the punctuation points of the ancient texts on both sides were almost all marked in red.The red identical punctuation marks are like a kaleidoscope, which immediately dazzles people.

"Chief referee." Bei Yuan turned to look at the judging seat, "The most important proofreading work in ancient books is to add punctuation and sentence breaks. In ancient Chinese, there is no modern punctuation to assist reading. All words and sentences are written together. For those who have not been trained in ancient Chinese, even if they are experts in literature and history, it is extremely difficult to read an ancient book that has not been added with modern punctuation.”

"Because of this point in ancient Chinese, it is very difficult to disseminate the original classical Chinese classics without punctuation. It is precisely through punctuation that ancient Chinese can be understood by the public. Only in this way can the traditional Han culture has been revived in modern times. It can be seen that punctuation and annotation are the core position in the verification project of an ancient book. Without punctuation and annotation, we cannot break sentences, and we cannot understand the sentences in ancient books.”

"Adding punctuation to ancient books and breaking sentences requires a huge project. I don't have to repeat it in court." Beiyuan raised his head, "Just give me an example. Among the 24 historical points in Dongtu, there are more than [-] Four scholars and experts devoted themselves to it, and almost mobilized the strength of the entire historical circle to complete the huge project of rectifying classical Chinese."

"However, in this case, Fujimura snatched all the results of my client Shimokawa's painstaking calibration." Beiyuan took a step forward and looked at the dock opposite. The punctuation similarity between the two books is as high as 98.7%. Except for the format of individual dashes and quotation marks, the two books are almost identical."

"Nearly [-]% of the punctuation is identical, which is unprecedented iron evidence, which proves irrefutably that Fujimura took the plaintiff's proofreading manuscript as his own. Considering the huge painstaking efforts spent in proofreading ancient books, for such deprivation The plaintiff's attorney requests the court to give the most resolute punishment for the behavior of the fruits of other people's labor!"

The punctuation marks on the projection whiteboard keep sliding.

The university management in the auditorium unconsciously tensed up.Before the lawsuit began, they were almost unanimous in how the similarity of punctuation could constitute plagiarism.It must be that Xiachuan was causing trouble for nothing, purely because he could not get tenure, and vented his anger and revenge on the school.

However, after today's trial confrontation, the management of the university has also been shaken.Although they still firmly believe that the story of this case is a false lawsuit brought by a teacher who failed to re-employ, they are already a little afraid that the court will be misled by the plaintiff's lawyer.

Utsunomiya looked at the scene in front of him, stood up immediately, and fired violently: "Chief referee, the plaintiff's opinion on evidence just now is completely a speech aimed at sensationalism, without any legal analysis opinions at all, and it did not explain. To demonstrate the repetition of punctuation marks constitutes the so-called similarity of copyright infringement."

Utsunomiya looked at the comparison results on the whiteboard on the screen and said, "Chief referee, the 98.7% repetition of the so-called comparison analysis results is an extremely misleading conclusion."

"The plaintiff's attorney directly compared the punctuation marks without considering what the punctuation marks actually do. In fact, the most commonly used punctuation marks are nothing more than commas and periods. A comma indicates a pause, and a period indicates the end of a sentence. .”

"Take a sentence as an example. There are only a few places where commas and periods are added. No matter whether Shimogawa checks or Fujimura checks, they can only correct the same result. Of course, the end of the sentence can only use a period. , the pause in the middle of the sentence, of course only commas can be used. The expression of a sentence is so limited, and repeated punctuation in the proofreading is inevitable."

"Considering the limited form of counting, the so-called high repetition rate claimed by the plaintiff's agent is not only not a problem. On the contrary, if there is no high repetition rate, it is still abnormal. The plaintiff's so-called comparison report cannot prove the so-called The repetition is plagiarism. It directly compares the modern punctuation marks with common usage. This method has major flaws, and the so-called repetition rate obtained is meaningless!"

Utsunomiya's face became a little ferocious, and he stared at Beiyuan fiercely, "The comparison report on punctuation marks submitted by the plaintiff's agent is nothing more than a pile of waste paper!"

(End of this chapter)