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Should the copycat culture be welcomed in china

Have you noticed that in the market, there is an increasing number of copycat products ranging from high-tech electronic products to fashion brands? And about such so-called copycat culture, some people welcome it, suggesting that it shows the power of folk innovation, while some point out that it is just a byword of plagiarism. Personally, I am with the later. Copycat culture should not be welcomed in China because it will cast terrible influence on the manufacturers, the customers and the social atmosphere of innovation.

For the manufacturers, the copycat products will cause a great decrease in sales volume. Because as we know, compared with a real product, the copied one is always much cheaper as a result that the copied product don’t need to pay the large sum of money for the design, therefore people are more likely to buy the fake one when they face with the big price gap. Take the mobile phone as an example, many people are using copycat phones, which will definitely influence the sales volume of the mobile phone company.

For the customers, the copycat products will make them spend money on ill-quality, worthless things. Although there may be some copycat products with a cheaper price and good quality, obviously a majority of them are not as good as the real one, and some are even worthless and don’t deserve the price. Because there is no standard for the copycat products, the customers will get confused by them and spend their money on ill-quality products. It is said that there are more than ten levels of every copycat products with different prices and different quality, and among them some are of very unfavorable quality. Imagine the market is abound in fake products, how can people choose the good from the bad?

The copycat culture post a threat to the social atmosphere of innovation. As for some people’s suggestion that copycat culture is the manifestation of the folk innovation, I would say that is a misunderstanding of the word”innovation”. To copycat is to copy others’ idea or design and then add something new in it to form a new one, and apply it in making something, which is not innovation, but to some extend, a kind of plagiarism. If all the people interpret copycat into innovation, they will tend to steal ideas from others when they want to innovate.

Copycat culture not only do harm the interest of the manufacturers and the customers, it also influence the atmosphere of innovation. Fortunately, we have known the bad effects from above, so it is high time we fortify our convention to fight against everything concerning copycat.