Fu Song looked at Yu Shan and asked, "Which Hollywood movie is similar to ours? Let me see."
Unexpectedly, Yu Shan said, "The Hollywood movie hasn't been made yet."
"It hasn't been filmed yet?" Fu Song was a little dumbfounded. "How can they say we plagiarized if it hasn't been filmed yet?"
Yu Shan: "Didn't Lost on Journey win an award? Coincidentally, the Oscars are also awarding the Best Screenplay Award.
So the Writers Association selected several of the best works for the selection.
As an international award, winning the Oscar is very beneficial to promoting our country's culture.
The Writers Association contacted Jiang Jianv, and she also asked for my opinion.
You were not here at the time, so I let her run for election directly. I didn’t expect…”
Fu Song looked at the Weibo post and said, "Since the other party hasn't even made their movie yet, accusing us of plagiarism is a bit far-fetched.
And if I remember correctly, whether it is the award from the Writers Association or the Oscar award.
As long as the movie is not released, the organizers must keep the plot of the script secret, right?
But the producers of How to Train Your Dragon have listed details about our film. If this affects the box office, who will bear the loss?"
"This..." Yu Shan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He was so focused on the other party's plagiarism that he ignored this detail.
"I'm going to contact the Writers Association right now and ask what's going on."
Fu Song nodded: "Not only do we need to ask, but we also need to find out the situation of that Hollywood screenwriter.
The plots of road movies are similar in some places, and it is not impossible for them to happen. After all, art comes from life!
Everyone gets inspiration from airplanes, so as long as the similarity is not particularly high, it cannot be considered plagiarism.
Both Newton and Leibniz invented calculus. Just because Newton proposed it a few months earlier, does that mean Leibniz copied it?
There are tens of thousands of miles between the two of them!"
Yu Shan: "Okay, I'll go ask right away." cascoo.net
After Yu Shan left, Fu Song frowned.
In fact, before the time travel, "Lost on Journey" is indeed somewhat similar to a Western road movie called "The Lost Journey".
But when Fu Song took out "Lost on Journey", he specifically looked up information.
There is no "A Love So Beautiful" in this world, and even if there is, the other party cannot directly sue you for infringement. At most, it is a shameless reference.
Because "Lost on Journey" and "A Little Bit of Love" are two relatively independent stories.
It’s outrageous that now they suddenly accuse me of plagiarism.
At this time, there was a knock on the door. It was the girl from the Jiang family.
Seeing the other person's depressed look, Fu Song smiled and said, "Is it because of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by How to Train Your Dragon?
Don't worry, there must be some misunderstanding. Leave it to me and just focus on your own business."
Jiang's daughter's eyes suddenly turned red: "Mr. Fu, I'm sorry.
The screenwriter was John Martin, who was my mentor when I was studying abroad in the United States.”
Fu Song was stunned: "Teacher?"
“Yes, because Lost on Journey is a road movie in some ways, and there aren’t many reference films of this type in China.
Professor John Martin is the originator of road movies and has extremely rich experience in this area.
In order to ensure the quality of the script, I sent him a private message and asked him various questions.
But I didn’t expect…”
Fu Song was silent. Finally, he asked, "What did John Martin say?"
"I haven't asked him yet."
Fu Song: "Send him an email now and ask him what's going on."
"But what if he doesn't admit it?"
Fu Songdao said, "You should still have the email you sent him to consult him, right? As long as you have the email as evidence, you don't have to worry about him denying it."
The Jiang family girl's eyes lit up: "Oh, I almost forgot about the email record. Wait a minute, I'll ask now."
As she spoke, she turned on the computer and began to edit the information.
Soon, the other party replied. The Jiang family girl opened the file and read it, stunned and not knowing what to say.
Fu Song: "What's wrong?"
The Jiang family girl said with a strange look on her face, “Boss Fu, Teacher John Martin said that he didn’t know anything about this matter.
When I told him your idea, he was inspired and wrote a script.
But his script and "Lost on Journey" are actually two different stories.
Not only are the narrative styles completely different, but the order in which the two protagonists take transportation is also completely different.
And Mr. John even specifically stated at the end of the script that his inspiration came from an Oriental friend.”
Fu Song was silent for a moment. "So, this whole thing was caused by the production team of How to Train Your Dragon?"
The Jiang family girl nodded and said, "That should be the case. Teacher John also said that he deeply apologizes for the trouble this incident has caused us.
If necessary, he can always speak out on his Twitter."
At this time, Yu Shan also came back: "Mr. Fu, I have checked it out, it's all a misunderstanding.
The Writers Association questioned the Oscar officials about this matter, and they said that when "Lost on Journey" competed with John Martin's "Way Down East",
As a result, because the content of our script did not conform to Western culture, we lost by one vote in the final vote.
The distributor of "How to Train Your Dragon" found that the main storylines of the two scripts were very similar, so they used the excuse of plagiarism to discredit us.
The Oscars have officially certified that these are two completely different scripts and there is no plagiarism."
Fu Song nodded and told the information he had learned from the Jiang family girl.
Yu Shan slammed the table in anger and said, "This is too much, absolutely too much.
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