Pure Coincidence or copy cat?

Lee Hom's fans .. are these pics ring a bell to you at all?

These snapshots were taken from Ungu - Untukmu Segalanya MV, with Christian Sugiono as the model. When I looked at these pics, I immediately think ... sigh another copy cat from Finally or 愛錯 (wrong love) by Lee Hom.

Luckily in Christian's blog, he posted the actual MV, the story is totally different from either Finally or 愛錯 .. phewww!! It's just pure coincidence .. or the director might get the idea of a boxer. But at least it's not the same.

Indo is really famous in copy-catting someone's idea without consent. I hate when that happens, specially me, who deals with intellectual property issues everyday .. (though I'm not denying that I do still buy pirated DVDs ^^ but hey we're not talking about that here).

It happens a lot with local soaps copied from Chinese Series. Meteor Garden was the first Chinese Series that was exactly copied into local soap called "Siapa Takut Jatuh Cinta" .. after few episodes, there were lots and lots of complaints, so the script writer totally changed the storyline which turned out rubbish. It was stopped with weird ending. Until now, there are numerous Chinese series were being copied completely into local soaps, some where written "adapted from .." but mostly not -- probably becos locals don't really watch Chinese Series anymore after Meteor Garden. But still, it doesn't give those people the rights to copy others' works.

Here is the latest copycat done (that I'm aware of) by whoever the director is .. Kerispatih - Demi Cinta, a total copied from Guang Liang's Dong Hua .. so not cool. But who am I to judge?