[...] d’absurdité assez grave et même carrément dissuader les producteurs, je vous renvoie à la bataille judiciaire qui avait pris des proportions délirantes autour de Style/Magasine Allo/Fashion King/Cinderella [...]

yeah, i think the only thing holding up cinderella man for me is definitely kwon sang woo.

the thing is, ideas get repeated so often that its called ‘cliche’.

so as what Samsooki said, if they really want to fight based on this, they should pay a lot of money to Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm’s Brother (who took ideas from folk stories as well), all your folk storytellers, Shakespeare, God…

if it’s for publicity, way to feed families.

Indeed, having the same ideas can be plagiarism; I think for those who often write college papers know that. No matter what if you use a certain idea from a source, you have to credit it in your biblio/works cited page. When I write my english essays, my teacher makes us credit her for using her ideas in our Works Cited page under ‘class notes, _____’.

However, dramas are very typical, they follow along the same plotline. Only a small amont of dramas vary from the typical storyline. I think every drama would have to sue every other drama for that: ‘ooh they copied us, they had someone with cancer too!’

@Jessica
I concur – a drama based on this might actually be more interesting. Throw in the hair-pulling and stilleto-throwing scenes and we’ve got ourselves a funny, short drama. I say short because there’s only so much of the catfight I can tolerate.