A Thief in Literotica

[dsoul]

I'd like to report that this Literotica site is no longer safe for authors anymore.

I posted a story here a couple days ago, if you follow the link below, you'll find it.

http://www.literotica.com/s/tp-cornered

Yet to my surprise, I found out that someone reader had stolen my work and made a publication of it on Amazon.com without my authorization.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006RPH0NM/ref=cm_cr_error

It goes to say that my work is no longer safe in a site such as this, and I wonder how long such has been ongoing.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'd like to report that this Literotica site is no longer safe for authors anymore.

I posted a story here a couple days ago, if you follow the link below, you'll find it.

http://www.literotica.com/s/tp-cornered

Yet to my surprise, I found out that someone reader had stolen my work and made a publication of it on Amazon.com without my authorization.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006RPH0NM/ref=cm_cr_error

It goes to say that my work is no longer safe in a site such as this, and I wonder how long such has been ongoing.

Sad to say it is pretty common. here look through this thread.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=792387

 

[dsoul]

I'm just not going to stand for it anymore... it why I'm leaving this site for good!

 

[beatrice_dreams]

I'd like to report that this Literotica site is no longer safe for authors anymore.

Sorry, no offense, but if you're posting work onto a website that is free and accessible to the known internet world...your work was never 'safe' to begin with. It just wasn't stolen yet.

 

[dsoul]

Sorry, no offense, but if you're posting work onto a website that is free and accessible to the known internet world...your work was never 'safe' to begin with. It just wasn't stolen yet.

Yes, so it seems....

 

[beatrice_dreams]

Yes, so it seems....

I suppose the best thing we can do is be vigilant as a community and let each other know if we spot anything that looks dodgy...

And at the end of the day, as an author, you're able to write another story. That's one thing the thieves can't do!

 

[dsoul]

I suppose the best thing we can do is be vigilant as a community and let each other know if we spot anything that looks dodgy...

And at the end of the day, as an author, you're able to write another story. That's one thing the thieves can't do!

I have written others... except they won't be seeing the light of day here anymore.

 

[shoulderblade]

Sorry, no offense, but if you're posting work onto a website that is free and accessible to the known internet world...your work was never 'safe' to begin with. It just wasn't stolen yet.

Bulls eye! Seems it is up to the author to protect their own work rather than assuming any site will handle it.

 

[Darkniciad]

Posting them anywhere opens you up to the same thievery. Not even publishing them as an e-book for cash will necessarily keep people from stealing it and republishing it under their own name. And once they do, even having a copyright and a paid publication to point to still isn't going to get you much more than a quicker take-down of the offender. They're fly-by-night thieves depending upon volume to make pennies at a time before the jig is up and they have to start all over.

It's the internet. Once you release it into the wild, it's going to happen.

Doesn't mean you have to like it, but you have to keep the perspective somewhere in the back of your head while you're fuming. If you're not going to publish for pay, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a larger audience than Lit for erotica.

The readership and authors are pretty good about watching the e-book distributers and such, and reporting to authors when work has been stolen so it can get taken down. It's a never-ending battle, and a gesture full of sound and fury, but at least you know someone is on your side.

Otherwise, you're writing for a readership of one. If you're happy with that, it's fine, but if you have any other goals, you have to weigh the options and realities.

 

[shoulderblade]

Otherwise, you're writing for a readership of one. If you're happy with that, it's fine, but if you have any other goals, you have to weigh the options and realities.

A reasonable summary.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" Dickens.

 

[sr71plt]

Publish them in the market yourself before posting them here (or, yes, don't post them free to the Internet at all). Then in any dispute, you've got the earlier publication.

(Of course Amazon seems to be getting around to not wanting anything distributed by them to also be free on the Internet. Other distributors don't seemed to be clued into this yet, though.)

 

[PennLady]

I'm just not going to stand for it anymore... it why I'm leaving this site for good!

It's not Literotica's fault. That's like blaming a car owner for having their car stolen. As others said, it's the internet. You take your chances. So you either need to find a more secure site (right) or not post.