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If I ever write a story, I hope nobody steals it.

shereads said:
Not that I wouldn't feel flattered.
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We'd all be flattered to a point. But as authors we work hard on what we write and most of us don't make money writing for free sites such as this. But anything created falls under intellectual property rights. The author owns the copyrights to his/her stories.

For someone to come along and copy our work and pass it off as their own is a slap in the face as far as I'm concerned. I have ALL my stories saved on my computer as well as a USB drive so if there's every any doubts, I have proof that it was me who wrote them.

My editor also has copies of my stories on disc and I trust her to not ever steal my work and pass it off as her own.

If you ever find any of your work copied to another site with no credit given to you, it should be immediately reported to the hosting site, the original site where you posted it and the person posting the copied work should remove it immediately.

It doesn't always happen that way and sometimes authors will just give up the fight. I for one wouldn't be very happy to see my work posted elsewhere without credit given to me. If it's done the proper way (someone asking to post my work elsewhere with credit given to me) then I have no qualms about it.

If my work is posted elsewhere with credit to me but I didn't give permission, I might get a little miffed and contact the person posting it.

If my work is posted elsewhere without credit to me (someone else taking credit for it) then it's balls-to-the-wall cuz I won't go down without a fight.

A simple way to look at it would be to think of it in other ways. Say you took a picture of something (a monument, a historical marker, whatever) and posted it for people to see. It's a wonderful photo, something that could win a few awards...people ooh and aah over it, you feel proud that you took the photo. But then it appears on someone's website and that person takes credit for the picture, wins awards for it, people tell THEM how wonderful the photo is, etc, etc. You wouldn't be happy would you?
 
shereads said:
Cool.

You know, the best part of that story was the title, which got screwed up because it didn't fit in the title field.
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That's okay. I improved on the title when I posted it as my own.

Well, okay, maybe 'improved' is kind of stretching it... ?
 
michchick98 said:
We'd all be flattered to a point. But as authors we work hard on what we write and most of us don't make money writing for free sites such as this. But anything created falls under intellectual property rights. The author owns the copyrights to his/her stories.

For someone to come along and copy our work and pass it off as their own is a slap in the face as far as I'm concerned. I have ALL my stories saved on my computer as well as a USB drive so if there's every any doubts, I have proof that it was me who wrote them.

My editor also has copies of my stories on disc and I trust her to not ever steal my work and pass it off as her own.

If you ever find any of your work copied to another site with no credit given to you, it should be immediately reported to the hosting site, the original site where you posted it and the person posting the copied work should remove it immediately.

It doesn't always happen that way and sometimes authors will just give up the fight. I for one wouldn't be very happy to see my work posted elsewhere without credit given to me. If it's done the proper way (someone asking to post my work elsewhere with credit given to me) then I have no qualms about it.

If my work is posted elsewhere with credit to me but I didn't give permission, I might get a little miffed and contact the person posting it.

If my work is posted elsewhere without credit to me (someone else taking credit for it) then it's balls-to-the-wall cuz I won't go down without a fight.

A simple way to look at it would be to think of it in other ways. Say you took a picture of something (a monument, a historical marker, whatever) and posted it for people to see. It's a wonderful photo, something that could win a few awards...people ooh and aah over it, you feel proud that you took the photo. But then it appears on someone's website and that person takes credit for the picture, wins awards for it, people tell THEM how wonderful the photo is, etc, etc. You wouldn't be happy would you?
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This is your editor-I just stole your stories:D

I lost 155 of 192 submissoins to AskJolene all in one day. I guess it took somebody some work to do that.

http://friends.askjolene.com/stories/author.php?id=40070
 
SHEREADS

Saturday the paper printed a guest column written by a local judge; he plagiarized some of it. I found the book he stole the material from. He misquoted Shakespeare in his column, that made me curious, and lo & behold! the Shakespeare quote was in the book he stole the other material from. The book, incidentally, is a big pat on the back for lawyers and how noble they are.

So that speaks volumes about how scared judges are of copyright enforcement.

I found a joke I wrote in 1993, on a joke site the other day. The thief actually improved it a little.
 
JAMESBJOHNSON said:
SHEREADS

Saturday the paper printed a guest column written by a local judge; he plagiarized some of it. I found the book he stole the material from. He misquoted Shakespeare in his column, that made me curious, and lo & behold! the Shakespeare quote was in the book he stole the other material from. The book, incidentally, is a big pat on the back for lawyers and how noble they are.

So that speaks volumes about how scared judges are of copyright enforcement.
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We should kill them all.
 
JOMAR

THAT was what made me curious. The judge uses THAT quote from HENRY IV and explains it as a sarcastic compliment to lawyers by Shakespeare. But Jack Cade speaks immediately after this and talks about how lawyers use the law to steal...bee's wax is worse than bee sting. That is, bee's wax is what lawyers sealed legal papers with.
 
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