According to the fact-checking platform of the German-French public television station last night, a Chinese daily tweeted a tourist video, but it was discovered that the image was in Switzerland. The original creator was not happy about this, saying that the Chinese plagiarism was a disgrace.
China Daily, the official Chinese media, tweeted a short film promoting Chinese tourism on May 10. The video, which shows an idyllic view of the mountains, is accompanied by a text that reads, “Wouldn’t you like to visit this peaceful place and spend time with your dog in a village at the foot of the mountains?” With the hashtag #ChineGlamour (Charming China).
The fact-checking platform Désintox-ARTE of the German-French public television said in its report, “But China Daily, China’s most important and directly officially controlled paper, has apparently been given a free hand in terms of its geographical location. For the scene in the picture is not a Chinese mountain range, but a few thousand kilometers away in Switzerland, in fact in the town of Brienz in Berne, Switzerland, with the lake of the same name on the side”.
The real source of the image is a six-minute video posted on YouTube in late April by Sylvia Michel, a well-known Swiss photographer and travel blogger. The plagiarized image from China Daily even uses a mirror effect, reversing it from the original and cropping out the author’s copyright floating watermark pressed on the top and bottom.
Immediately after the release of the film, eagle-eyed netizens noticed that the location of the image should be Switzerland instead of China, leading to many people leaving comments below questioning the source of the film. Michelle also informed Twitter as soon as she was told and expressed her displeasure with the Chinese daily: “It’s really a shame to copy a Swiss film, reverse it left and right, and then promote it as a Chinese territory. Are you guys serious?”
Many netizens below the original YouTube video have left comments expressing their support for Michelle. One user wrote, “It’s really disgusting that the Chinese Communist Party stole your beautiful images and kept them for themselves. They should be ashamed, but I know they don’t care about respecting other people’s work. I wish more people would come and show their support.”
Winston Sterzel, a creator who has lived in China for many years, also left a message to mention the incident on his show ADV Podcast, noting that he too was a victim of plagiarism by the Chinese government and calling on creators worldwide to be aware of what China is doing.
Michelle thanked everyone for their encouragement in a message below on YouTube, “It’s not legal to take a film and put it on your channel – no matter who you are… Respect the work of the artist, the photographer, the filmmaker, and you can’t take it away just because you can do it! “.
China Daily eventually removed the film without offering any explanation.
Yet only an hour before sending out the plagiarized film, the China Daily Twitter account had just denounced the Western media for lying in the form of a satirical cartoon, with text that read, “Western media credibility is gone.”
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