Recently, with the launch of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", its online discussion has become more and more heated with the arrival of summer. It is in the limelight as the leader of popular online novel adaptations. However, as the plot of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" developed, the issue of plagiarism by Xiaoxiang Dong'er, the author of the original work "The Princess of 11 Agents", was raised again and again, and it became a hubbub.

Of course, this incident did not come out of nowhere. Even before the TV series started airing, when the one-minute clip was released, some attentive people discovered that the lines in the clip were suspected of plagiarizing Jiangnan's work "Kyushu" Misty Record". It is rumored that after the plagiarism incident broke out, Jiang Nan, the author of "Jiuzhou Piao Miao Lu", publicly ridiculed Xiaoxiang Dong'er, the original author of Chu Qiao's biography, saying that "the taste is very good, (the copied) are all my golden sentences." Subsequently, more attentive netizens pointed out that the original novel "The Legend of Princess Chu Qiao" was suspected of plagiarizing many classic novels by well-known authors. The ones that have been identified include "Jiuzhou Piaomiao Lu" by Jiangnan, "Mrs. Hu Zhu" by Xiao Rushe and Liu Lianzi's "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and so on, the rest of the editor will not go into details one by one. The amount of plagiarism is really jaw-dropping.

Of course, such plagiarism incidents are not unique to "The Legend of Chu Qiao". Some time ago, many popular dramas have been involved in plagiarism, such as "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Splendid Young", "A Thousand Bones of Flowers" and other popular dramas. There have been cases of plagiarism of original works, which has also caused A series of questions have arisen; the relevant departments have clearly strengthened the punishment for such incidents, but why do such incidents still occur one after another and are difficult to eradicate?

In the final analysis, there are only two reasons.

First, compared with traditional physical book publishing, which has high costs and a long profit cycle, online novels have low threshold for creation, strong interactivity, rich subject matter and other advantages, which also make them popular among more and more original authors and authors. A favorite among book lovers. At the same time, when an excellent online novel is developed into a game or even a film and television work, huge profits will follow, and the exposure rate of online novel writers will also increase exponentially, and their worth will greatly increase. "Internet literature In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, the consumer group of online novels has become larger and larger. Therefore, after a film and television drama adapted from an online novel is broadcast, in order to increase the readability of the online novel, some excellent "excerpts" are "referenced" The good words and sentences in the work naturally become a natural thing."

Secondly, compared with the huge benefits, the cost of plagiarism is so weak that it is not worth mentioning. Due to the characteristics of literary works, it is indeed a bit difficult to determine whether a work is plagiarized, and there is no legal clarity. Clear definition standards, therefore, although there are risks, there are still many authors who take advantage of the troubled waters and gain both fame and fortune.

Seeing this, the editor couldn't help but sigh, "Profits attract people's attention, money moves people's hearts" is indeed a wise saying that has never changed through the ages. If you want to really stop this unhealthy trend, you can only Improving the law and increasing the intensity of crackdowns are the most feasible methods, but there is still a long way to go.