QSD plagiarism??

[HungV]

www.soompi.com/2012/12/25/drama-queen-seon-duk-is-found-guilty-of-plagiarism-three-years-after-its-broadcast/ (English news)

i have read the article in a Vietnamese newspaper today ,it is said that QSD was copying ideas in the play called Queen of Rose of Sharon .The proceeding is going to be reconsidered and til now , the judge passes the verdict confirmed QSD is definitely the plagiarise and the producer receives a pecuniary penalty of $ 186,000 and the broadcasting and distributing are all banned.

It is also said the drama scripts and the musical play doesn't really repeats each other but the scripts represent lots of things in the musical play.
The article also mentioned: the musical play producer was the first one to start the ideas ,MBC producers contacted them in order to study about the stories and characters , and later it seemed that they (MBC) reused lots of stuffs from the play .

Has anyone heard anything more about this ? or know about the play ?

ah , I've been a silent reader in this topic and found you guys are very understanding and having broad knowledge , Can I translate and repost your articles to my QSD Vietnamese topic ?

[Knov1]

That can't be good. Would DF be forced to take it down?

[HungV]

Dec 26, 2012 7:51:42 GMT -5 Knov1 said:

That can't be good. Would DF be forced to take it down?

it doesn't mean to prohibit the discussion of viewers. And you can watch by various websites so it's not a problem.

[ajk]

mannschaft, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention...it's important enough that I started a new thread for it and moved your post and the two follow-up posts there. (Hope you and knov don't mind.) Hopefully there will be more news about this; please do keep us posted if you hear or read anything else.

As of right now on December 26 the series is still up on DF. We'll see what happens. I'm sure MBC is going to file an immediate appeal with whatever the appellate court is in South Korea (sorry I don't know the court system there). Hopefully that will prevent anything drastic from happening, at least before we can finish the series here.


p.s. You're more than welcome to take anything I've posted here and use it on the Vietnamese site. I'm sure everybody else here feels the same way...but you might want to clear it with them about their own posts just to be absolutely positive. Don't worry, we wouldn't have sued you for plagiarism! But I really appreciate your asking--shows the same courtesy I always try to show when I repost from another source.

[HungV]

thank you, ajk.

i have another news here:

Writer Kim Young Hyun of MBC QSD: "I am not a thief."



Writers Kim Young Hyun and Park Sang Yun gave an explanation about the case of MBC drama "Queen Seon-deok" being judged that it plagiarized the creative musical "Sun-deok of Beautiful Land Korea".

Kim Young Hyun, who wrote "Queen Seon-deok" said, "This is unacceptable and I will appeal to the Supreme Court. When this issue first came out in 2010, I looked for the musical script but couldn't find it anywhere. I finally laid my hands on it but I had never seen in before. How would I feel about being called a thief?"

Writer Park Sang Yun said, "Where will the characters and the creativity of the story we wrote be protected by? I wait for a wise judgment from the court for the sake of impaired reputation and the standard of plagiarism".

Previously, the Seoul High Court overturned the verdict in the case where Kim Ji Yeng from Great Wicks sued Kim Young Hyun and Park Sang Yun for plagiarizing the musical "Sun-deok of Beautiful Land Korea".

PS: i changed my nickname into my real name

[TheBo]

I assume Hung is your family name, right? Can we ask what the "V" is?

Thanks for this info. It is pretty interesting. Sometimes people are not plagiarizing, they simply have the same idea at the same time, due to similar forces acting on them. Like telephones being invented by several people at the same time just because the technology was there to be used. There are better examples, I can't think of them right now. Don't steal my idea! <jk>

Bo

[MTR]

Vendetta silly !!!!.

No i have no idea and sorry Bo and Hung for my poor humor ;D ,anyway i wonder if the character Mishil was in the stage play ?
I also wonder if this will affect the QSD film ?.

[HungV]

No, Bo. Hung is my name and V is abbreviated form of my middle name . ;D

i don't know about the play since i haven't found any of it on internet . I also heard they gonna make QSD in movie version but the plan was sinked or something because I have never seen or heard about it again.

I hope this scandal will be settle in a right way so that no one will get hurt.

[TheBo]

Is this later info than what Hung-V posted? posted on Soompi 12/25/12 Looks like it's been decided, but distribution issues don't seem to be clear from this post.

D'oh! I just saw, that's exactly the article we started out with! Sorry, silly me. However, it only says something about DVDs. It's still up on DF. If someone finds out further info, I think they should post it here.

Bo