优酷VS少年不可欺

Over the weekend, a post titled 少年不可欺 or "The Youth will not Be Bullied" swept through several social media platforms including Weibo and WeChat. The post claimed that video website YouKu and social website Momo stole their idea and experience. The 19-year-old writer and his team used a weather balloon to take aerial photos of the earth, and he claimed youku recreated an advertising video for Momo using the same name, story, and aerial photos with the content of the students' project, without getting authorization from the team. Yesterday, YouKu released the inspection result to the public, admitting that the story adopted by the adverting video is similar to the students' experience and apologized to those students publicly. The advertising video is removed from YouKu website. But the discussion online did not quiet down. What happened exactly? Was Youku guilty of stealing?