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I'm sure there have been threads about this in the past, but a cursory search didn't turn up much.

Have many of you have had people take your stories and post them up as their own on other sites?

Were you successful in getting the stories taken down?

I'm currently dealing with this problem, as someone felt the need to take my story and post it on asstr.org without my permission, removing my name from it and posting it under their own name. I've emailed the site, but have not heard anything back yet.

Frustrating. It's not like we get paid for posting our work on this site, the least they could do is give credit where it is due if they choose to re-post it somewhere.
 
You will have to send them a DMCA request, but this means giving them your real name and other information.

It might be easier to post a comment, does asstr have that ability, telling the rest of the world the guys a thief.
 
Read this thread. It's a sticky at the top of the Authors' Hangout:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1055555

Thanks for that. I skimmed it earlier and just assumed it only related to Amazon. I see now that isn't the case. I appreciate the heads up.

I'd hoped a well worded and non-hostile email to the website would take care of it, but I'll go the DCMA route and see if I get better results. The "author" in question appears to have stolen several people's work, not just my story "All I Need." Hopefully the site will ban the little scumbag.

I may take some time to try to sort out who some of the other authors are and contact them privately to let them know about it. One of my readers was kind enough to alert me to it.
 
I'd hoped a well worded and non-hostile email to the website would take care of it,

There's no reason why it should. Without some evidence, the Web site has no reason to think that the story is yours any more than anyone else's. You know that, but in complete objectivity there's no reason they should just take your word for it.
 
There's no reason why it should. Without some evidence, the Web site has no reason to think that the story is yours any more than anyone else's. You know that, but in complete objectivity there's no reason they should just take your word for it.

Valid point. My misplaced faith in humanity momentarily thwarted my more rational mind once again.
 
You could try pointing out the date on your submission here? They may take that as proof.
 
You could try pointing out the date on your submission here? They may take that as proof.

I actually did do that part. I pointed out the dates of my submissions here, for all three parts of the story, and pointed out that the user on their site, "ashrith" uploaded all three parts of my story the day after the third part went live on here. I'll do it again when I file the DCMA complaint.

I'd link the jerk's submissions on their site here so that other authors could look to see if their stuff is on his/her rather lengthy (more than 100) list of uploads, but I seem to recall seeing that it wasn't allowed to link other sites here.

I'm tempted to include a nasty note to them, expressing my deep desire for them to experience severe dysentery, in the author's note section when I upload the next chapter.
 
This is a full list of submissions and upload dates *supposedly* written by the author "ashrith" on the site. I recognize several of the stories as having been stolen from other writers on this site. If any other writers read this post, they may want to skim the list to see if their stuff is included below. Maybe if enough people file complaints, "ashrith" will be banned from their site altogether. *shrug*


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You could try pointing out the date on your submission here? They may take that as proof.

That should work if it's just a rogue poster (probably is, for ASSTR) but don't rely on posting dates if the site owner is involved in the theft. I saw one site that was ripping off stories from here and falsifying the dates so that their site showed an earlier posting date than the original Literotica version. At that point, you probably need a registered copyright to do anything about it.
 
I recognize a ton of those. Beachbum! Pretty sure "Katy's Boobs" is a rip-off. Native Sister. Quarterback's Little Sister. Kethandra and SSL among others.
 
Got four of mine. And mom makes three and three of my milf tails series.

Bunch of silk stocking lovers too.

Hazard of posting on a free site.
 
Got four of mine. And mom makes three and three of my milf tails series.

Bunch of silk stocking lovers too.

Hazard of posting on a free site.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I thought people would want to know, though.

I always knew it was a possibility, just didn't expect it to happen from the very first story I posted. Not like it can be stopped completely, but it's annoying to have the credit for your stuff stolen like that.
 
Someone alerted me about this months ago; I tried pointing out to asstr that it was my work, listed the stories of mine the talentless twerp had lifted, gave posting dates and proof of same on Literotica, nothing. As LC says, I guess this is one of the hazards of posting on a free site

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I thought I'd take a punt and file a DMCA notice for the first 4 of my stories I found in the list; I don't really expect much to come of it, but it'll be interesting to see if anything pops at all. Going into 'not holding my breath' mode now, keep ya posted...

Will
 
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I think it may take a message from Manu to the site owners of asstr to get them to remove the offending posts. I'm wondering if it's even possible for the stories to be taken down entirely. From what it looks like, asstr is not a regular website with centrally hosted files all managed by one person. It may just be collecting stuff posted to newsgroups. That website is just ONE way the posts can be read. Anyone with a news reader can pull them up.

For the younger people reading (and at the risk of dating myself) newsgroups were popular in the early days of the internet. They're still around, but they predated forums like this. (howstuffworks has a good article that includes discussion of newsgroups). The important difference is that newsgroups are decentralized. One person leaves files on a server marked for a certain group and another server grabs them. So, short of hunting down which service that one asshat used to post them, it's hard to mark these files as "don't grab".

Functionally and ethically, this is the equivalent of someone posting torrents of erotic videos. They're not looking for credit. They just want to pass it along for free.

For me, this brings up the issue of ways to search for your own work or put warnings inside the Lit submissions themselves. Experienced writers, do you have any recommendations? Should we be including unique phrases or keywords? I think it was in one of Bramblethorn's stories where I saw an unmarked sentence somewhere in the middle, saying something like "this was posted only to lit erotica dot com".
 
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Have many of you have had people take your stories and post them up as their own on other sites?

Were you successful in getting the stories taken down?

It happened to me. I went the DCMA route and the site had it down within a couple hours. It wasn't asstr though.
 
For the younger people reading (and at the risk of dating myself) newsgroups were popular in the early days of the internet. They're still around, but they predated forums like this. (howstuffworks has a good article that includes discussion of newsgroups). The important difference is that newsgroups are decentralized.

It's worth noting that newsgroups date from the days when the internet was non-commercial - not non-commercial in vague the sense that people didn't try to make money on it, but absolutely non-commercial in that it was forbidden to even post advertisements on it. It predated the web. You weren't supposed to post copyrighted material on it, either (which got totally ignored by, not surprisingly, the newsgroup that handled erotic pictures; helpfully tagged "megabytes and megabytes of copyright violations.")

Other than that one much beloved newsgroup though, people used to take a dim view of copyright violations on the internet and things were generally done when it happened. Good days.

But then came commercialization, the September That Never Ended, and the web, and here we are.
People who grew up with the web will have no idea what I'm talking about; the internet of those days is unimaginable to you. Try to imagine a world where if someone posted your material without your permission, you could take it down yourself, though it would raise some eyebrows if you did it without discussion.
 
For me, this brings up the issue of ways to search for your own work or put warnings inside the Lit submissions themselves. Experienced writers, do you have any recommendations? Should we be including unique phrases or keywords? I think it was in one of Bramblethorn's stories where I saw an unmarked sentence somewhere in the middle, saying something like "this was posted only to lit erotica dot com".

This occurred to me, but I haven't done it because I don't want to distract from the (hopefully) engaging story. Sort of like watching a commercial in the middle of a TV edit of a movie you love. You're reading and all of a sudden "Buy Diet Coke!" pops up and throws you out of the story.
 
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For me, this brings up the issue of ways to search for your own work or put warnings inside the Lit submissions themselves. Experienced writers, do you have any recommendations? Should we be including unique phrases or keywords? I think it was in one of Bramblethorn's stories where I saw an unmarked sentence somewhere in the middle, saying something like "this was posted only to lit erotica dot com".

I put a copyright message at the start of most of my stories. I ought to edit the stories that don't have it.

But - searching for "Copyright oggbashan" reveals most of my stolen work. :D

My message is effectively meaningless in law because although I have copyright in the UK I don't have that protection in the US, and wouldn't have unless I paid to register my copyright.

Even then, trying to prosecute someone who has stolen my stories would cost me significant amounts of lawyers' fees and for what? I have suffered no financial loss. The thief probably doesn't have assets and enforcing a judgement would cost me more money.

The majority of thieves appear to be based in countries that don't care about copyright law, so they can steal without no fear of any consequences.

But why steal some of my stories to put them on malware infested sites such as 'Japanese anal-fisting teenagers'?
 
For me, this brings up the issue of ways to search for your own work or put warnings inside the Lit submissions themselves. Experienced writers, do you have any recommendations? Should we be including unique phrases or keywords? I think it was in one of Bramblethorn's stories where I saw an unmarked sentence somewhere in the middle, saying something like "this was posted only to lit erotica dot com".

Yeah, that would've been mine. It worked, too - some nice fellow saw the notice in a stolen version of my story, searched out the original, and contacted me so I was able to get the thief's Amazon account taken down.
 
Per the asstr.org site polices...

5. Copyright. Except when explicitly authorized by the copyright owner, all communications and content of all kinds available at ASSTR may not be copied or otherwise reproduced in any form. ASSTR reserves the right to refuse access to any communication, service, or content at ASSTR at any time to anyone without notice. Any and all unauthorized downloading of materials from ASSTR shall constitute intentional infringement of the copyright owner's rights in such materials.

Except where otherwise explicitly noted by copyright owner, any material "uploaded" or otherwise sent or contributed to the ASSTR site remains the sole property of copyright owner. ASSTR makes no claims of copyright ownership to any material "uploaded", posted, contributed, or otherwise available at or sent to ASSTR site by User.

ASSTR respects the rights of all copyright holders and in this regard, ASSTR has adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of account holders who infringe the rights of copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide ASSTR's Copyright Agent the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. � 512:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

2. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

3. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party;

4. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

5. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.​

ASSTR's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on or regarding this site can be reached as follows:

Copyright Agent
PO BOX 583
Alexandria, VA 22313-0583
Email: copyright@asstr.org
 
This Ashrith character stole a big chunk of my story list, ASSTR blithely ignored a flurry of DCMA takedown notices (possibly because I'm not located in either the continental USA or any of its offshore territories, commonwealths, or states), and Laurel is trying to pretend she's never heard of me, my stories, or my requests for the site to do something about it. I do understand one has to accept this as the inevitable consequence of publishing on a free site, but it still rankles.
 
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