I Was Just LOCALISING An Inspirational Idea
Producer of NDP 2008 music video, Gloria Chee, said that
she was simply localising an inspirational idea.
And she thinks
it’s a remake of that idea.
The she quoted a famous local copycat movie director as example,
it’s like Jxxx Nxx’s movie is a remake of the Iranian movie “Children of Heaven”.
She added that
her friends, relatives, and the NDP committee also knew that she had adapted the idea from the Japanese ad.
She emphasized that
she didn’t do it with the idea that no one will know. From the production house to her friends and her parents, she never tried to hide the fact that the video is a remake of the Japanese video.
And,
she only gets a honorarium for producing the video.
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Jialat’s thought:
Thank you Gloria. Thanks for teaching me a better, gracious term/replacement of “copycat”. “Localising an inspirational idea”, what a good term! It is even better than the term “recycle of idea”.
But even it is a remake, isn’t it better to have at least a line of credits to give credt to the original creator? I think a line like “Inspired by ad of Japan Children’s Foundation from Japan Ad Council”, or something like that, at the end of the video or on the website, will make people feel much better. Yes, everyone who knows you know that it is a remake. Point is, before this “copycat issue” was blew up, who the hell in the public know who the fxxx “Gloria Chee” is? The committee knew it, but they never informed the public 1st.
Anyway, creativity nowadays is cheap. So students out there, if your teachers accuse you of “copy” your friends’, classmates’ homeworks, just tell your teachers that “you are localising an inspirational idea”.
Jack Neo is not alone.
I got no problem copy the ideas here and there.
if like that also cannot, then many HK, Korea, Japanese, Taiwan TV dramas also copy-cat what??
definitely no problem, even if it is a video to celebrate your national day.