CCTV has accused Zhejiang TV of plagiarizing its music video and admonished its peers in the tone of a “media judge”. CCTV, the “No. 1 mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China”, has been plagiarizing other people’s works for a long time, and has refused to enforce the lawsuit, even intimidating the original creators with a tone of “I am a rogue and I am afraid of no one”.
On May 20, the CCTV movie channel China Film Report published an article saying that the music video of “520 Special Edition Starry Sea” released by Zhejiang TV was very similar in many aspects to its promotional video “Starry Sea” released on January 1, 2020.
According to CCTV, the two versions of the video, which were released a year and a half apart, are strikingly similar in terms of creativity, format, set and even sub-screening.
Therefore, the CCTV movie channel lodged a solemn protest, saying that it reserved the right to take legal measures to protect its legitimate interests, and admonished its peers in the tone of a “media judge”: “plagiarism and copying will only bring regression”.
The same afternoon, Zhejiang TV director Lin Chung said to the surging news, has taken note of the CCTV movie channel statement, the current Zhejiang TV team after the initial judgment, that there is a misunderstanding of the matter, is communicating with CCTV.
Intimidate the author CCTV responded to the infringement of stolen pictures
Before CCTV accused Zhejiang TV of plagiarism, the “No. 1 mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party” had long been criticized for plagiarizing and plagiarizing other people’s works and violating intellectual property rights.
On May 15, the National Space Administration of the Communist Party of China (NSA) announced that the “Tianwen-1” rover with the Zhu Rong Mars rover landed on Mars on the same day, and CCTV and other official media released a film showing the landing of “Tianwen-1” in the form of animation. process.
However, some netizens found that the footage, use of images and editing of the film released by the official media were similar to those of NASA’s Curiosity in 2011 and Phoenix in 2007. The animated footage of NASA’s 2011 Curiosity and 2007 Phoenix Mars missions is very similar.
In addition, Chinese freelance landscape photographer Wang Yuanzong took to his Sina blog in September 2015 to expose the scandal of CCTV stealing his original photographic footage in violation of copyright. He said that the original footage was shot with desperation, only to have these hard-won results stolen by CCTV.
According to Wang Yuanzong, in 2013, he took time-lapse photography for his personal work “Tibetan Starry Sky”, and CCTV stole his original photography materials without authorization and cut off the watermark with the copyright of his work in a program of “Beautiful China Countryside” on CCTV-7.
Wang Yuanzong found a contact number on CCTV’s official website and dialed the number to try to communicate with the other party, but CCTV staff first denied any infringement and finally responded, “How can you call it serious? Oh, it’s serious just because you used your material for a few minutes? CCTV just used your material, so what?
After that, Wang Yuanzong contacted the relevant departments of CCTV again, asking for compensation for the use of the material, but CCTV did not agree and said “don’t make a big deal out of it” and threatened Wang Yuanzong that they would notify his local public security bureau to investigate whether Wang was suspected of fraud.
In 2013, CCTV launched a remake of the “New Big Head Son Little Head Dad” animated TV series and movie without the permission of the copyright holder, and was found guilty of infringement by the court, and compensated the Hangzhou Big Head subsidiary 1.26 million yuan. However, CCTV denied the infringement.
In 2000, Chen Pei and Zhu Shimao took the company to court and the court ruled that the defendant had infringed. Since then, Chen and Zhu have been blocked by CCTV.
The Communist Party’s official media is “notorious” for piracy and copyright infringement
In fact, the “culture of plagiarism” has always been prevalent in the official media of the Communist Party. On the 10th of this month, China Daily, an official media outlet of the Communist Party of China, tweeted a tourism video promoting China’s tourism industry with the hashtag #ChineGlamour.
But the film was soon found to have been plagiarized from Switzerland, and after criticism from the original author and ridicule from netizens, China Daily quietly pulled the film without any explanation.
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On the left is Michelle’s original film, while on the right is the image that China Daily copied and then altered. (Screenshot of the video)
Désintox-ARTE, the fact-checking platform of the German-French public television, said in its report that China Daily, an important mouthpiece controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, had apparently altered the location. The scene in the picture is not from the mountains of China, but from Switzerland, thousands of kilometers away.
The scenery was taken by Sylvia Michel, a Swiss Internet blogger, and China Daily cut out Michel’s copyrighted watermarks at the top and bottom. Michel tweeted to China Daily, “It’s terrible to copy a Swiss film, reverse it left and right for editing, and then promote it as domestic China, are you serious?”
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