The copy ‘Cat is out of the Bag’!
By Dominick Andoh || aviationghana.com Listen to article
China’s booming entertainment industry has been thriving on plagiarism. Chinese filmmakers are now adept at shying away from strong scripts and innovative storylines as original ideas are pushed away to the crevices of history and distasteful copies are churned out by the dozens every passing year. All this hustle and bustle is only to make a quick buck and shrug off the creative costs associated with the exploration of its own creative potential rather than implicitly conceding to its creative inferiority by engaging in cheap knock-offs from across the globe.
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Two Chinese films accused of plagiarism to be removed on Monday: report
Chen Xi Published: Jan 03, 2021 06:23 PM
Film director Guo Jingming (right) and actor Mark Zhao (left). Photo: IC Citing industry insiders, Chinese entertainment site ifeng.com has reported that two Chinese films that have been accused of copying foreign works will be removed from cinemas starting Monday. The report comes as Guo Jingming, an author and the director of one of the films, apologized on Thursday for plagiarizing another author s work in one of his novels from nearly two decades ago.
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