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Audi Apologizes and Withdraws Plagiarized Ad Featuring Andy Lau

Audi Apologizes and Withdraws Plagiarized Ad Featuring Andy Lau

May 25, 2022
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On May 21, FAW-Volkswagen Audi published an advertisement endorsed by Chinese actor Andy Lau, and it became a hit online. But that very night, a blogger named Beida Mange with 3.7 million followers on Douyin – the Chinese mainland version of TikTok – claimed that the ad had taken its script “from an original poem” he had composed …

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