J's Chimes: To Copy Or Not To Copy...

By Djenar Siti

Plagiarism doesn't only happens in our assignments or books and such where references are needed to be put at the back for salutations. Even animes and games are being copied just so to attract people to buy their products. And so you know it doesn't only happens in Singapore, but in other parts of the world as we know it. Such an example would be this so called Korean game that copies the One Piece anime cover but added with a couple of tweaking here and there... Of course this is not such a big deal until you'd see this below....


Yup... Does it looked familiar? Somehow some Suzumiya Haruhi Fan decided to drew a look-a-like picture of her in a book about sports for sale in association with the Beijing Olympics 2008. Was wondering why Japanese animation companies didn't sue them instead for such plagiarism...