Conan: The winner is justice

The trial continues.

The witnesses have produced evidence and confirmed the legality of the judicial process, so the defendant needs new evidence.

The current situation remains the same as it was in the first instance of the civil lawsuit.

No matter who actually wrote the book, the copyright of the defendant's novel belongs to Hu Cang. Since there is plagiarism, according to the law, it still constitutes infringement.

At this time, in the dock, Hu Cang's proud face still showed a trace of worry.

Although Gu Meimen vowed to win the lawsuit.

But Tokura wasn't really sure how he was going to win.

Because Gu Meimen didn't say what methods he would use.

"Mr. Lawyer, are you okay?" he asked in a low voice.

"No problem. As I said, you will be acquitted in this lawsuit."

Gu Meimen gave him a reassuring look.

"That's good."

Tokura Daisuke breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had taken a reassurance.

After that, Gu Meimen put a smile on her face again and stood up.

"Actually, there is a question that has been lingering in my mind about this case."

Kujo Reizheng frowned slightly: "Gu Meimen, what kind of monster do you want to be?"

"Looking at what Prosecutor Kujo said, I just want to ask a question."

Gu Meimen smiled.

There was a pause.

"The plaintiff keeps saying that the plots in the two novels are similar and that there is plagiarism. So I would like to ask, does plagiarism really exist?"

Reishi Kujo was stunned and immediately mocked: "I thought you were going to say something, Lawyer Gu Meimen, but now, you can still ask such a stupid question? The so-called plagiarism evidence was not laid out at the beginning. Is it on the countertop?"

Everyone present nodded.

The evidence was released by the plaintiff from the beginning, that is, the color palette.

The two colors are used above to clearly show the comparison between the passages of the two books.

If you say there is no plagiarism, you are simply blind.

"Is this lawyer out of his depth? This is all nonsense."

"Haha, after failing to attack the judicial process, I started to use strong words to make excuses."

"Unscrupulous lawyers are all like this. They all use the same tricks. Once they see no use, they will lose their way."

"Damn it, defend the bad guy, and this is what you'll end up with!"

There was a lot of discussion in the auditorium.

Everyone is waiting to see Gu Meimen's joke.

Here, facing the mocking glances from around him, Gu Meimen still smiled and showed no intention of paying attention.

"Prosecutor Kujo, I think you misunderstood me."

Gu Meimen smiled.

"I mean, is there a possibility that the book that the witness wrote for our client may indeed be plagiarized, but when it comes to the plagiarized content, it is not actually the plaintiff's book that was plagiarized? "

"ah?"

Kujo Reizheng was stunned.

Gu Meimen's words were a bit convoluted, and he didn't understand them for a while.

After a while, he finally realized what he had thought of, and a look of horror appeared on his face.

“During the serialization period, the witness wrote two books at the same time. According to the data on the website, he had to write at least 4,000 words a day for each of the two books. In order to ensure progress, the plaintiff’s book even took a day. There are six thousand words to write, which adds up to ten thousand words in total..."

Komemon paused and looked at Tadokoro Toshiya with a smile.

"Ten thousand words a day, or two books with similar themes but completely different themes. If the content is all original, this is an amazing workload. Am I right? Mr. Tadokoro."

Tadokoro Toshiya's expression changed, as if he realized the meaning of Gu Meimen's words.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with force, "Lawyer Gu Meimen, I don't understand what you mean."

Over there in the gallery.

"What exactly does Lawyer Gu Meimen want to say?"

Fei Lan looked confused. She was innocent and kind by nature, but she didn't understand it after listening for a long time.

"Isn't this simple?" Xiao Ai on the side explained to her, "The other book written by the witness is actually not all his own original work, and part of the content was copied from others."

"What!"

Feilan was shocked now.

Unexpectedly, when this case reaches this point, there will be new developments? !

The plaintiff’s book is actually not original, but copied from someone else’s?

This plot can be used as a storybook...

Here, facing the witness's pretense of sophistry, Gu Meimen didn't waste any time and took out a new color palette printing document from the table.

"This palette is divided into three paragraphs. The first two paragraphs are two novels written by witnesses, and the third paragraph is a novel published more than 20 years ago before the Internet was born. It is called "Cat's" Kino's Journey."

Gu Meimen pointed to the three paragraphs in the palette.

""Cat's Journey to Kino" was published much earlier than these two novels. We can see that there are quite a few scenes in these two novels that were inspired by this ancient novel. In physical novels.”

"For example, this section of Cat's Journey to Kino."

“American shorthair cats are the most evil of all cat species. They will use their hard claws to force spotted Japanese bobtail cats to submit. To symbolize force, one cat even threw two feces balls into the bobtail cat’s home. "

"Let's look at two other books written by witnesses."

""The Adventures of the Shield Black Cat" writes: The American short-haired cat united with the British Golden Cat and the Russian Blue Cat to force the black cat away with its hard claws, and also threw two feces in the black cat's nest. ."

""The Stray Cihua Cat" writes: The American shorthair cat is the most domineering cat species. It feels that it is the best cat in the world. It wants to use force to take away the dried fish that the Cihua Cat finally stole. To this end, It even threw two feces into the cat’s nest.”

Gu Meimen read the words in these paragraphs aloud in the court, word for word.

After reading it, he smiled and looked at Toshiya Tadokoro, whose expression had completely changed and sweat was pouring from his head.

"Excuse me, why do the two books you wrote have so many plots that are so similar to this book?"

"This this……"

Tadokoro Toshiya's face turned red and he couldn't answer a word.

Yes, as Gu Meimen said.

Since you have to write 10,000 words a day, you also have to write a plot that readers will like, and maintain character settings and plot highlights. Don’t think it is easy. This workload is actually extremely huge. It is quite time-consuming, brain-consuming, and labor-intensive. finger.

Except for that kind of extremely talented writer, generally no one can complete it.

So, what should you do to accomplish this workload?

There is only one way.

Copy the routines from books you have written before.

Or, to put it more simply, copy other people's books.

It would definitely not work to copy a book he had written before. Daisuke Tokura would have figured it out beforehand.

If it were discovered that the plaintiff also wrote the book, the revenge plan would be aborted.

Then you can only copy other people's books.

It is definitely not possible to copy articles that are currently being serialized on the Internet or from the Internet in recent years. It is easy to find evidence.

what to do? Then copy the physical book from more than 20 years ago.

It turns out that Toshiya Honda felt that his plan was very secretive.

After all, there are no templates for novels from more than 20 years ago on the Internet, and few readers today can read physical books. Moreover, he did not copy the book word for word, but it was a wash of text, so it should not be easy to be copied. figure it out.

However, he never expected that Gu Meimen, a lawyer, would look for evidence just like digging through the ground.

He actually dug out the evidence for this book!