PLAGIARISM (GAYA-GAYA) TRENDING IN THE PHILIPPINES?

Plagiarism is a big insult to the Filipinos.

I am bothered by this latest development happening in our country's  government and the entertainment industry. Plagiarism seems like a normal thing already.

The first big issue on plagiarism was the Department of Tourism's Pilipinas Kay Ganda logo which they admitted was BASED on the Polska logo. Based is used but not copied. Where if you put both logo side by side...they really look the same. This is so sad why? Because the government is paying millions of pesos to pay this people with peoples money to be creative and all they give us are copies of other people's work. That is the greatest insult of the decade. Insult to the Filipino people. Insult to people they copied their work at and insult to these so-called creative people with high paying jobs who, are expected to produce original works but succumbed to copying.

Another big blow in the morale of the Filipinos is the outright copying  of Senator Tito Sotto's privilege speech against the RH Bill from an article of a Blogger named Sarah Pope. All I can say about it is this. Why copy? He is an opinionated person why not say his OWN opinion about the issue? Why resort to copying? which is the cheapest form of writing. Does his own opinion does not matter. He is a senator and he should be highly knowledgeable about this bill. You can never go against something if you do not know what it is all about.The big question there is "WHY DID YOU COPY?" Again we pay this senator people's money to create laws and implement them. NOT TO COPY.

And then there's this movie coming out this August 29 (I think). It is called Guni-guni. It is a horror movie produced by Regal Films. Regals Films has been in the Film Business since time immemorial (the 70's i think). They have made TONS of movies and most of them are big hits especially in the 80's and 90's. They discovered stars that became Big Names in the industry now, like Maricel Soriano, Gabby Concepcion, Aubrey Miles. They made big movies like Shake Rattle and Roll and the like. And this latest movie they did which is Guni-guni. A suspense thriller. They copied the poster of an Indonesian horror movie entitles alone. The copying is so obvious from the color scheme to the actual subject of the poster. Mother Lily, the movie outfit's producer, paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of pesos to produce a movie. Now why would you pay millions for a non-original work?

Plagiarism is an outright insult. Stop insulting your public. Stop Insulting the Filipino people. Stop insulting yourselves. BE ORIGINAL!!!

AN UPDATE ON PLAGIRISM

Here's an update on Senator Tito Sottos speech...this is just in today. I know Mr. Sotto hasn't recovered yet from his last mishap from the plagiarism issue from Miss Pope. Well it seems this same Senator hasn't parked his pen yet from copying. Another netizen (thank God for them) has discovered that the Senator Tito Sotto copied from another source and tagalized the english speech of the poor guy. I am talking about THE late US Senator Robert F. Kennedy. I have a photo here that captures the tagalog speech of Sotto and the english speech of Kenndy and my gosh the contents are exactly the same only Senator Sotto's speech is in tagalog. Wow thats a double whammy! Boom! Boom! Double blow insult to the Filipino people. I wish this will stop. Let us be original! Please. Let us continue guarding our dignity. Thank you for all the people who make an effort to investigate this. Thank you for the internet, we now have easy access to search and research real quick. Filipinos! Let us continue to be very vigilant especially to these elected Public Officials who are suppose to do their jobs. Original Jobs. Not copied jobs! Let us not vote them again. PLEASE!