A Chinese vlogger stole your code in his sponsored video

A Chinese vlogger named "老师好我叫何同学" used your code in his sponsored video, which does not violate the MIT license.
However, this vlogger claimed that this project was written by their team themselves, which is unethical.
The sentence "所以我们专门写了一个软件" in the picture means: So we wrote a special software
The video is here

[saulchiu]

He's using your code for commercial purposes without copyright statement, which is a violation of the MIT license, Mr. Here's his profile: 赛博丁真

[ShuhongDai]

@vietnh1009 Additionally, this individual has a long history of fraud and plagiarism, going back several years. The infringement on your open-source work is by no means an isolated incident. He and his team are repeat offenders.

[Mq-b]

I have asked Mr. He. Don't worry.

我已经询问了何同学，不要着急。

https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1001405125842960390?spm_id_from=333.1365.0.0

[vietnh1009]

Hi, thankss you guys for all the support. I wrote a comment on this youtube video, but my comment is removed by him. I do appreciate your effort and kindness

[vietnh1009]

@vietnh1009 Additionally, this individual has a long history of fraud and plagiarism, going back several years. The infringement on your open-source work is by no means an isolated incident. He and his team are repeat offenders.

thank you for letting me know. Try to write a comment on his video, but my comment is removed. But nice to know that there are many people outside standing for the truth like you guys

[Mq-b]

I feel sorry for you, can you provide the video link and the content of the comments? Maybe we can make more noise.

He has more than 10 million followers, and the video was a commercial, so we want him to pay all the proceeds from that video back to the project.

我为您感到抱歉，您能提供视频链接和评论内容吗？也许我们可以制造更多的影响。

他拥有超过 1000 万粉丝，这个视频是商业广告，所以我们希望他将该视频的所有收益退还给项目。

[vietnh1009]

I feel sorry for you, can you provide the video link and the content of the comments? Maybe we can make more noise. He has more than 10 million followers, and the video was a commercial, so we want him to pay all the proceeds from that video back to the project.

Thank you, I wrote:

Hi guys,
Today, thanks to some Chinese friends on Github, I know that you are using my personal project (https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator/blob/master/img2img_color.py) and claim that you write the code (at 00:56 in your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hznRcgHnjY). I even made 2 youtube videos to guide my viewers (mostly Vietnamese peoples) on how to write this python code for free (https://youtu.be/_sCSzoxlsCg and https://youtu.be/KVQHb9ATJnw). You are not just stealing other's work, but also lying to your subscribers. I guess I am not the first one whose work is stolen by you. To me, I am fine, but dont make money from it, since it is not your work, and your viewers deserve something better. They pay you for your creativity and effort, not for stealing things from internet.

The video author has apologized yesterday.

我们看到了大家在评论中关于字符画转制程序的讨论。我们视频中使用的字符转制程序确实是由开源项目ASCII-generator改动而来，改动的内容主要是优化字符生成比例、图片裁切方式和传参方式。视频中55秒的旁白“所以我们专门写了一个软件，可以把预览动画里的色块转换成字符”确实不严谨，非常抱歉在视频里没有指出这一点。之所以会出现这种情况，是因为我在写视频的文案时不够严谨，没有和相关同事做好沟通，并没有意识到这个程序是从开源程序改动而来，也没有尽到审稿义务，实在抱歉。我们已经对视频进行换源，修改了相关描述并增加引用来源，同时进行内部检讨，反思流程和审稿上的问题。衷心感谢大家的监督。

We have seen everyone’s discussion about the character conversion program in the comments. The character conversion program we used in our video does is from the open-source project ASCII-generator, with some changes on optimizing the character generation ratio, image cropping method, and parameter passing. The narration at 55 seconds in the video, "So we wrote a software that can convert the color blocks in the preview animation into characters," is wrong, and we sincerely apologize for not pointing this out in the video. The reason this occurred is that I was not rigorous enough when writing the script for the video, did not communicate well with the relevant colleagues, and was unaware that this program was modified from an open-source program, also failing to fulfill my review duties, for which I am truly sorry. We have already updated the video to change the source, modified related descriptions, and added citations, while also conducting an internal review to reflect on the process and issues with the review. We sincerely thank everyone for their supervision.

[AnzhiZhang]

Hi, thankss you guys for all the support. I wrote a comment on this youtube video, but my comment is removed by him. I do appreciate your effort and kindness

The other issues in Chinese created recently are all about this, they are mostly not constructive and have spam comments. You may feel free to close them (and I personally wish so) and leave this one for further discussion and any action you may take in the future.

Many people here are also making open source softwares, some like you choose to use licenses such as the MIT license to allow commercial use, and most of us still want to be credited. It is unacceptable for him to remove licenst notice and author name from his video and claim it is an original software. By subscribing to the issue, we want to hear more updates from you.

Here's an update for you: he has edited the video on Bilibili, changing the previous claim to “we modified this open source software”. He also added the repo link on the screen (although it seems like a very short transparency animation is applied).

The screen shot for edited version

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[epcdiy]

I feel sorry for you, can you provide the video link and the content of the comments? Maybe we can make more noise. He has more than 10 million followers, and the video was a commercial, so we want him to pay all the proceeds from that video back to the project.

Thank you, I wrote:

Hi guys, Today, thanks to some Chinese friends on Github, I know that you are using my personal project (https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator/blob/master/img2img_color.py) and claim that you write the code (at 00:56 in your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hznRcgHnjY). I even made 2 youtube videos to guide my viewers (mostly Vietnamese peoples) on how to write this python code for free (https://youtu.be/_sCSzoxlsCg and https://youtu.be/KVQHb9ATJnw). You are not just stealing other's work, but also lying to your subscribers. I guess I am not the first one whose work is stolen by you. To me, I am fine, but dont make money from it, since it is not your work, and your viewers deserve something better. They pay you for your creativity and effort, not for stealing things from internet.

I am a vlogger from bilibili(a chinese video website just like youtube)
I translated your text to chinese and add to my bilibili article.
I am not the first one to expose hetongxue who stole your code.
but I must thank my 760,000 fans for giving me the courage to make him apologize.

[vietnh1009]

Thank you everyone for standing for the truth. Honestly, I dont care too much about other people using my code. What I want is, to prevent someone to earn money from others (audience, users, viewers,....) in an inappropriate way (steal other works and use it as a way to earn money from viewers and subscriber)

I guess I am the only one who is not Chinese here. Thank you for supporting and updating me. Here is my linkedin, if you guys want to keep contact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vietnh1009/). I have a small youtube channel, but all content is in Vietnamese so maybe you guys will not care :)) https://www.youtube.com/@vietnh1009 . I will make an youtube video tomorrow to show my viewers and subscribers how Chinese people act when they see sth wrong

I will back to Vietnam this December, after spend 9 years studying and working in Germany. I will definitely visit China soon, maybe in 2025.

Again, thank you guys so much

[vietnh1009]

I feel sorry for you, can you provide the video link and the content of the comments? Maybe we can make more noise. He has more than 10 million followers, and the video was a commercial, so we want him to pay all the proceeds from that video back to the project.

Thank you, I wrote:
Hi guys, Today, thanks to some Chinese friends on Github, I know that you are using my personal project (https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator/blob/master/img2img_color.py) and claim that you write the code (at 00:56 in your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hznRcgHnjY). I even made 2 youtube videos to guide my viewers (mostly Vietnamese peoples) on how to write this python code for free (https://youtu.be/_sCSzoxlsCg and https://youtu.be/KVQHb9ATJnw). You are not just stealing other's work, but also lying to your subscribers. I guess I am not the first one whose work is stolen by you. To me, I am fine, but dont make money from it, since it is not your work, and your viewers deserve something better. They pay you for your creativity and effort, not for stealing things from internet.

I am a vlogger from bilibili(a chinese video website just like youtube) I translated your text to chinese and add to my bilibili article. I am not the first one to expose hetongxue who stole your code. but I must thank my 760,000 fans for giving me the courage to make him apologize.

you are so great, bro. Thank you so so much

[JackySu]

I feel sorry for you, can you provide the video link and the content of the comments? Maybe we can make more noise. He has more than 10 million followers, and the video was a commercial, so we want him to pay all the proceeds from that video back to the project.

Thank you, I wrote:
Hi guys, Today, thanks to some Chinese friends on Github, I know that you are using my personal project (https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator/blob/master/img2img_color.py) and claim that you write the code (at 00:56 in your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hznRcgHnjY). I even made 2 youtube videos to guide my viewers (mostly Vietnamese peoples) on how to write this python code for free (https://youtu.be/_sCSzoxlsCg and https://youtu.be/KVQHb9ATJnw). You are not just stealing other's work, but also lying to your subscribers. I guess I am not the first one whose work is stolen by you. To me, I am fine, but dont make money from it, since it is not your work, and your viewers deserve something better. They pay you for your creativity and effort, not for stealing things from internet.

I am a vlogger from bilibili(a chinese video website just like youtube) I translated your text to chinese and add to my bilibili article. I am not the first one to expose hetongxue who stole your code. but I must thank my 760,000 fans for giving me the courage to make him apologize.

you are so great, bro. Thank you so so much

hetongxue has been an obnoxious burglar of open-sourced codes, and getting his ways for years. He really deserves ban hammer. I hope this message finds you well, and stay away from all the bothers, take care!