That's definitely a good argument for Literotica and living affected authors taking some coordinated blitzkrieg action against the source - trying to making the whole channel too problematic to deal with so that everything gets taken down. If the infringer finds out that there's a potential loophole due to some of the writers being deceased, that could be an issue, so better to keep that knowledge in confidence externally?
Typically, once they get enough claims from other people, they just terminate the account and delete all the content on it, so those no longer with us get protected as well.
You'd listed a number of other affected writers upthread, I've checked the site directly and I'm not one of them. Although I'll check again later.
But you also highlighted some deceased writers. I don't know about Apple, I know that Amazon will not accept third-party copyright claims, it has to be the copyright owner or an 'authorized rep' (so agent or lawyer) to submit claims. For any deceased writers, that means either their heir(s) or an agent/lawyer may need to take action if the offending site isn't totally struck.
The Literotica FAQ has this:
Unfortunately, I don't know if anyone here has any contacts to the potential heirs of these writers. Whether they were aware of their kin's work here is one thing, whether they'll care is another. And, whether Apple or other sites would accept the above as 'authorization,' and whether Literotica would take action for these deceased writers is not something I can decide.
Many thanks for doing this, and providing updates.
Thanks again for your efforts and for sharing the outcomes. So I can see that lots of stolen stories are being uploaded at https://podcasts.apple.com/no/channel/erotica-podcast-network/id6474457060 including 14 consecutive LW stories by @Imstillfun. It's depressing that they haven't changed their evil ways or even their methodology even after being called out. What a POS.
This is a serious issue, stealing authors’ work is unacceptable. Reporting the infringements and filing DMCA takedowns is the right move. Hopefully, this thread will help others protect their work too.
Your signature resembles my philosophy for this pen name. I always say my stuff is meant to be one rung higher on the plausibility ladder than "Is there another way I can pay for this pizza?"
Two of the three stories I linked a few minutes ago are about cheating wives, but the third is not. Realizing that these stories are getting plagiarized actually led to a realization about the kind of stories that seem to get a good response on LW. I've never posted a story there, but at least I (think I) now understand a formula: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/loving-wives-tough-group.1628790/page-4#post-100926501
How does an author find out if he/she/it has used one of the author's stories?
Uh...
Perhaps you should also leave a comment on the narrated, plagiarized version pointing out that it's stolen and linking to the original.
I know what you mean. What, my stuff's not good enough to steal?
LW?
I stumbled across EPN completely by accident when I decided to navigate to one of my stories via a search engine instead of going directly through Literotica. This particular story thief would actually credit the original author username on the mistaken assumption that attribution means it's not copyright infringement (it is). I don't know if more sophisticated thieves would be make it that easy.
Loving Wives.
So married women who cheat?
It's a bit more than that. Sample some stories, read the comments, and decide. I did that in the first days after I joined Lit, and made my mind up. Not the category for me.
My strong suggestion is to do that for any new category. If you want to write for a category you don;t know well, read a sampling of stories, including the comments.
