Suzuki Ayako was guided by the judicial police to stand on the witness stand. She clasped her hands on her chest and took a deep breath, trying to relieve her nervousness.
"Mr. Kasai Satoshi, may I ask that so far, all the songs published under the name Kasai Satoshi are composed by you yourself, and absolutely none of them are plagiarized from others, right?" Kensuke walked to the dock and stared at Kasai Satoshi.
asked.
Kasai Satoshi has a slender face, strong outlines, gray hair, glasses, and a serious and imposing expression. He looks more like a judge than the somewhat "soft" judge sitting above.
Kasai Chi glanced at the two colorfully dressed rock youths on the plaintiff's bench and said categorically: "Of course, including the song "That's Love" that you are suing this time, it was entirely composed by me.
I feel very sorry for your extortion of money, because your actions are blaspheming the art of music..."
"That's it, there's no need to say any more nonsense." Kensuke interrupted him directly.
Kasai Chi's face looked a little ugly, but he maintained his demeanor and did not get angry or curse anyone.
Yanji faced the judge and pointed at Kasai Tomoe: "This Kasai-san just claimed that all the songs published under his name were composed by himself, and none of them were plagiarized.
But now, my witness, Suzuki-san, who is standing on the witness stand, can prove that not only did he plagiarize, but the songs he plagiarized were even selected into primary school music textbooks!
It’s really hard to imagine how ironic and sad it would be if the song he plagiarized was actually printed in a primary school music textbook with his name..."
The judge looked solemn when he heard this. Indeed, it would be too bad if plagiarized songs were openly included in textbooks.
Lawyer Miki quickly raised his hand, "Objection, please provide evidence to prove your point of view, instead of presupposing premise and saying some inflammatory words here."
"The objection is valid." The judge came to his senses and nodded quickly.
Kensuke shrugged and turned to look at Suzuki Ayako, "Suzuki-san, please tell everyone present what happened."
"Hi." Suzuki Ayako responded quickly, and then recalled meeting Shizuo Komemon and singing this song in public in the coffee shop, and other customers applauded.
Of course, Shizuo Komemon's name was not mentioned.
After Suzuki Ayako finished speaking, Kensuke said: "So, the time Suzuki-san sang this song in the coffee shop was much earlier than the time Mr. Kasai Satoshi over there publicly released "LOVE LOVE LOVE".
In addition to Suzuki-san himself, many customers in the cafe that day can attest to this.
And this song had already been written in the notebook of Suzuki Ayako’s friend long before she saw it.”
"In that case, did you bring the notebook you mentioned? I have not seen the plaintiff submit an application for forensic identification of handwriting..." The judge flipped through the file and asked a question.
Although handwriting identification is not accurate enough and can only identify handwriting within five years, it can still roughly estimate a time.
As far as this case is concerned, if the plaintiff can produce song recording notes from at least one year ago, but the defendant cannot provide earlier evidence than the plaintiff, the judge will definitely be inclined to believe that the defendant has committed plagiarism.
And just now, Mr. Satoshi Kasai publicly stated that he had never plagiarized, so under this blow, the credibility of all his statements with the judge will be reduced to the lowest.
Naturally, when it comes to the plagiarism issue of rock youth, Kasai Satoshi is at a disadvantage.
Lawyer Miki was not too panicked about this, because if Kensuke Komemon had direct evidence in this case, he would have used it long ago. Why bother to prove that Kasai Satoshi's other song was suspected of plagiarism first to sway the judge's preference.
As for the plagiarism issue of another song, what does it have to do with him? He is only responsible for winning the current case.
He didn't panic, but Kasai Chi couldn't stand this. He plagiarized the song "That's Love" by Rock Youth, which was also a hit song. Although it made more than 100 million yen, it was still the same as the song that was going to be included in music textbooks.
"LOVE LOVE LOVE" is not a concept.
He is an old man in the music industry. He is not short of money, but reputation is more important.
Lawyer Miki noticed his uneasiness, gave him a calm look, and then planned to get up and apply for an adjournment of the court, first to appease his client and to buy time to deal with Gu Meimen Kensuke's methods.
But before he could speak, he heard Kensuke's voice.
"No, the owner of the notebook refused to lend me the item as evidence." Kensuke curled his lips, looking very unhappy.
The judge was stunned for a moment and then asked: "Then did you bring any evidence related to the testimony of other customers in the cafe that day?"
Gu Meimen Yanjie expressed some embarrassment, "We are short of time and haven't found those customers yet."
"..." Lawyer Miki sat back silently, just... this?
"But I have other ways to prove..." Kensuke glanced at Lawyer Miki, with a faint hint of ridicule on the corner of his mouth, and then said to Suzuki Ayako:
"Suzuki-san, I remember you said that in addition to the eavesdropped song, there are many other unpublished works in that notebook, right?"
"Hey, that's it. I haven't counted it, but there may be hundreds of songs."
"How does it compare to the one that was overheard?"
"I personally feel that most of the songs are not inferior to this one, and a few may even be better..."
Everyone in the court was a little surprised when they heard this. "LOVE LOVE LOVE" has already been selected into the textbook level. Are there so many unpublished high-level songs?
Kasai Satoshi was particularly surprised and did not believe this. If there was such a genius, how could he not publish it publicly but keep it in some notebook?
After all, that notebook only exists verbally and has no physical object.
"A notebook full of excellent, unpublished songs sounds very exciting, right? Kasai-san?" Kensuke looked at Kasai Satoshi with a half-smile.
Kasai Chi replied expressionlessly: "This joke is not funny at all. Lawyer Gu Meimen probably doesn't know how difficult music creation is.
How could the kind of notebook you mentioned exist? Do you create for your own entertainment without publishing it? Music belongs to everyone, especially the listeners. This is something that every creator understands.
In this era, excellent works will not be buried. If there were so many good songs, they would have been known to the public long ago.
Most importantly, why doesn’t the music creator you say was plagiarized come forward to file a lawsuit? Isn’t this strange?”
Lawyer Miki knocked on the table and said, "Lawyer Gu Meimen, if you have evidence, bring it out. If you don't, stop messing around here."
