Removing all of my stories from this site...

[Cumminginsiderher]

I think the biggest problem people are having is the fact that Literotica isn't going to bat for their authors over stolen intellectual property. If things are as Literotica says, then ALL of the work here is Copyrighted by American and International Laws.

There is another venue where stories from here are being stolen and submitted to....
That's YouTube.

Reading Reddit Stories on YouTube has become a HUGE moneymaker for many YouTube channel creators. There are so many of them right now that every decent new story on Reddit gets "Read" on several different YouTube channels over the week it appears on Reddit.

Well, in order to have fresh material others don't have, a few have come to Literotica to steal the stories directly from here before someone else steals them and puts them on Reddit.

Why is this a big deal??? If you have monetized channels on YouTube, it doesn't take many subscribers and views to start bringing in thousands of dollars a month. There is a loser from Ukraine who had a YouTube channel for a few months and now he just started another one who gets ALL of his stories for both of his YouTube channels from here.

Needless to say, PEOPLE ARE LOVING HIS CHANNELS BECAUSE THE STORIES ARE SO AWESOME. Plus, they love the fact very few other channels are publishing these stories on YouTube. At the rate he is going, it won't be too long before he is pulling in several thousand of dollars a month just reading stories he is stealing from here.

Selling the stories on Amazon or elsewhere will seem like the minor leagues compared to the big bucks YouTube is paying to successful channels.

 

[TheArsonist]

I think the biggest problem people are having is the fact that Literotica isn't going to bat for their authors over stolen intellectual property. If things are as Literotica says, then ALL of the work here is Copyrighted by American and International Laws.

That's like saying if your car gets stolen from a shopping mall parking lot, the mall should recover it for you. Infringements of your copyright are up to you to handle; it only becomes LitErotica's responsibility to deal with if one of your stories is posted to this site without your permission.

 

[Cumminginsiderher]

That's like saying if your car gets stolen from a shopping mall parking lot, the mall should recover it for you. Infringements of your copyright are up to you to handle; it only becomes LitErotica's responsibility to deal with if one of your stories is posted to this site without your permission.

Well, if the shopping mall claims to go after the person(s) that stole your car according to certain laws they claim, then....... shouldn't you expect them to??? Shouldn't they be required to if that is the claim they are making??? Why would Lit claim all the work published on this site is protected by copyright laws if it really isn't??? That seems to make them more liable than they should or want to be.

Or, is their claim just there to "scare" people away from stealing the stories and not an actual legal claim???

I just really hate to see the hard work of so many stolen and used to create profit for those too lazy or untalented to actually do the work and write a story.

 

[TheArsonist]

Yes, it really is protected by copyright law, but you seem to misunderstand what that means. That notice is a warning that makes it clear that stories posted to this site remain under copyright. It's there so no one can claim that they thought that just because a story was available to read for free on LitErotica, they assumed or read somewhere that that also meant they could copy it and republish it somewhere else.

It does not mean that LitErotica takes on any responsibility to enforce those copyright claims on behalf of authors (anywhere else than on their own site). But authors can try, and the statement helps establish that anyone pirating the story knew they were violating copyright.

In the parking lot analogy, it's like a sign saying "Cars parked here remain the property of their owners, and it is a crime to take them without permission." Such a sign does not in any way promise that the owners of the car park will take care of tracking down and prosecuting car thieves.

 

[alohadave]

Why would Lit claim all the work published on this site is protected by copyright laws if it really isn't???

In the US, all works are copyrighted as soon as they are written. That has nothing to do with how Lit operates, it's federal law. Lit is not a law enforcement agency. It's not their role to pursue copyright violations.

The copyright holder is the only one who can pursue copyright claims. Additionally, the only place Lit can police is their own site.

 

[djrip]

I think the biggest problem people are having is the fact that Literotica isn't going to bat for their authors over stolen intellectual property. If things are as Literotica says, then ALL of the work here is Copyrighted by American and International Laws.

There is another venue where stories from here are being stolen and submitted to....
That's YouTube.

Reading Reddit Stories on YouTube has become a HUGE moneymaker for many YouTube channel creators. There are so many of them right now that every decent new story on Reddit gets "Read" on several different YouTube channels over the week it appears on Reddit.

Well, in order to have fresh material others don't have, a few have come to Literotica to steal the stories directly from here before someone else steals them and puts them on Reddit.

Why is this a big deal??? If you have monetized channels on YouTube, it doesn't take many subscribers and views to start bringing in thousands of dollars a month. There is a loser from Ukraine who had a YouTube channel for a few months and now he just started another one who gets ALL of his stories for both of his YouTube channels from here.

Needless to say, PEOPLE ARE LOVING HIS CHANNELS BECAUSE THE STORIES ARE SO AWESOME. Plus, they love the fact very few other channels are publishing these stories on YouTube. At the rate he is going, it won't be too long before he is pulling in several thousand of dollars a month just reading stories he is stealing from here.

Selling the stories on Amazon or elsewhere will seem like the minor leagues compared to the big bucks YouTube is paying to successful channels.

Why the fuck are people going to YouTube to have stories read to them? Do they know how to read?

 

[Bamagan]

Why the fuck are people going to YouTube to have stories read to them? Do they know how to read?

I presume it's the same reason, or similar, that people buy audio books.