Sanlih News Network Accused of Plagiarizing Prominent YouTuber "Imserious": Infringing Intellectual Property and Sparks Media Ethics Outrage

In mid-June 2024, a major copyright controversy erupted in Taiwan''s digital creator community. The prominent educational YouTuber "Imserious" (Hsu Ting-jui) publicly exposed and provided concrete evidence showing that Sanlih E-Television''s subsidiary "Sanlih News Network" had systematically plagiarized his highly budgeted and professionally produced industrial science videos. The network copied his proprietary scripts, storyboards, editing styles, and narration without authorization, reproducing the content as their own commercial YouTube videos. This sparked widespread support from other independent creators who collectively accused mainstream media networks like Sanlih of long-term exploitation of individual creators'' intellectual property. Facing massive backlash and a reputation crisis, Sanlih quietly deleted the videos and settled privately, drawing severe public condemnation for mainstream media''s blatant theft of creative labor and lack of respect for intellectual property rights.