China News Service, March 22 (China News reporter Xie Yiguan) "The cat in the alley is free, but has no destination. The dog in the wall has a destination, and has to bow his head throughout his life. This is a multiple-choice question in life. No matter what choice you make, you will have regrets. , but people always think that the road not taken is full of flowers..."
Recently, this quote coupled with a picture of Luo Xiang, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, has flooded the social media platform, arousing the resonance of many people. Before this "chicken soup" copywriting, many "quotes" by American entrepreneur Musk had been circulating on short video platforms for a long time.
A celebrity photo is paired with a line or an excerpt. I don’t know when, celebrity quotes have become a “fan-attracting tool” for major video creators. However, whether these words are written by celebrities also makes people wonder.
Screenshot taken from a video platform.
Is Musk also an experienced user of Moments?
"The first step to becoming a strong person is to kill all the fears in your heart..." "The person I admire most is myself. Only I can help myself get through mountain after mountain..." "No matter the cost Invest in yourself, don’t care about other people’s opinions, block all garbage people, I will crazily plunder all the beautiful things..."
On a certain video platform, these lines all come from the same person - "Musk". With his rich quotations and wide range of topics, he seems to have been promoted from a business tycoon to a super speaker.
But the occasional sentence "Some people who look very happy are actually the saddest people. The circle of friends is not real, because when people upload photos, they will carefully select and choose the best ones", which makes people start Confused, Musk is also an experienced user of Moments?
In addition to "Musk is all over the screen", in some chicken soup accounts, writer Yu Hua and well-known investor Warren Buffett are also "prolific" creators.
"Why do most children of poor people find it difficult to succeed?" "Why do most poor families have disharmony?" Looking at these quotations from "Yu Hua" may make many readers fall into deep contemplation.
Screenshot taken from a video platform.
Before they come out of their contemplation, many people will be hit hard by Buffett's words that "people who work all day long cannot make a fortune. Wealth is a compensation for cognition, not a reward for diligence." They vaguely remember " "Luo Xiang," didn't he just say, "I'm most afraid that your knowledge will be opened up, but you won't be able to keep up with your efforts, and you will be extremely noble in your bones, but extremely weak in character."
And all these entanglements about cognition and hard work will be completely wounded by the words of "Akio Morita": "Why do you think that your ten years of poverty are worth my three generations of business?"
As a result, people who were heartbroken began to like, repost, and comment like crazy. These words and this scene seem to go back to the time when my parents were keen to forward "chicken soup articles" in their circle of friends, and they never forgot to add the sentence "to encourage each other".
Many of the "famous quotations" are based on the prestige and disgrace.
But do these words really come from famous people? Some people expressed doubts in the comment area from time to time. After all, some of the lines seemed weird and absurd.
In a certain video account, the so-called Yu Hua's quotations claim to be from Yu Hua's collection of essays "We Live in the Huge Gap". After reading this collection of essays, China News Business reporter found no relevant content.
In addition, the original source of Luo Xiang's words about "cats in the alley are very free..." has not been found online. The reporter noticed that this passage had been circulated on social platforms last year, but at that time there was no mention of it coming from Luo Xiang.
And "Warren Buffett's" sentence "People who work all day can't make a fortune...", if you change the video account, it comes from the mouth of American oil tycoon John Rockefeller or even Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
It’s true and false, making people laugh and laugh, and this kind of “fake” chicken soup copywriting has already been cracked down by celebrities.
In July 2022, the writer Mo Yan clarified on his personal public account that the works such as "Wine and Sex", "If You Only Understand Me" and "I" circulated on the Internet were not written by him. He also mentioned that there are famous aphorisms such as "I am only responsible for two kinds of people - those who gave birth to me and those who gave birth to me". They are not made by me, but some people criticize my three views based on this. For this, I can only Cried, laughed and sighed.
Screenshot taken from Mo Yan’s WeChat official account.
Earlier, "Yang Jiang's Centenarian Remarks" became popular on the Internet, but was later refuted by the People's Literature Publishing House.
But the reporter found that "we were so eager for the waves of fate, but in the end we discovered that the most beautiful scenery in life is actually the calmness and calmness of the heart..." This "Yang Jiang's 100th Anniversary Remarks" is still circulating on the Internet. .
It can be seen that many of these "famous quotes" on the Internet are fake and cannot be fully trusted.
Lawyer: Making up "famous quotes" involves illegality
From text to pictures, and now to videos, "celebrity quotes" have been continuously spread in the form of "changing the soup without changing the medicine."
Displaying interesting lines that appear in film and television works and variety shows in a superimposed manner. This popular way of outputting opinions has now also been applied to celebrities, and attaching resonant text has become a new "traffic password."
After all, compared to anonymous "chicken soup copywriting", these "celebrity lines" take advantage of the public's worship of celebrities and can easily gain attention and influence for the account. Going further, this attention can also bring business benefits to account holders.
On short video platforms, small yellow carts selling books often hang under these "famous quotes". Many people buy these "famous quotes" enthusiastically. However, the results are sometimes quite different than expected.
For example, in the purchase review of Yu Hua's book "We Live in the Huge Gap", someone mentioned, "If it is for the quotations in the video pictures, I do not recommend that you buy it, as it is not mentioned in the book."
Screenshot taken from a book product review section.
Making up "famous quotes" to mislead consumers and obtain commercial benefits is also illegal in the eyes of lawyers.
Zhao Zhanzhan, a special researcher at the Intellectual Property Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service, "According to the provisions of the Civil Code, natural persons enjoy the right of name and have the right to decide, use, change or permit others to use their names in accordance with the law. Any organization Or an individual may not infringe the name rights of others through interference, misappropriation, counterfeiting, etc. Therefore, fabricating so-called celebrity quotes in the name of a celebrity is an infringement of other people's name rights by counterfeiting."
Some accounts will include celebrity photos when spreading "celebrity quotes". Zhao Zhanzhan believes that natural persons also enjoy portrait rights, and no portrait of the portrait rights holder may be produced, used, or disclosed without the consent of the portrait rights holder. "Of course, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code, there are exceptions to fair use, such as the unavoidable production, use, and disclosure of the portrait of the right holder for news reporting."
"In addition, natural persons also enjoy the right of reputation. If you fabricate celebrity quotes and their content affects the reputation of others and lowers their social evaluation, it will also constitute reputation infringement." Zhao Zhan said.
Living celebrities can still prove themselves and pursue claims, but can deceased celebrities just let these accounts make up "famous quotes"?
Zhao Zhanzhan said that if the celebrity involved in the fabricated celebrity quotes has passed away, the interests related to his name, portrait and reputation will be enjoyed by his close relatives. Without the consent of his close relatives, it will still constitute infringement, and his close relatives can claim The infringing party shall bear corresponding legal liability. (over)