Fuck!

[PrincessErin]

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[sr71plt]

This may be the other shoe dropping on the problem of stories being stolen from here and other websites and set up as Kindle books--and Amazon getting caught between competing "owners." Pretty sensible of them, really. Why be involved in marketing of material freely available somewhere else?

Probably the best thing to do is to respond in the vein of #2 (statement of ownership) with the note that you're pulling them off free websites--and then do it.

If you really, yourself, don't know that the stories are offered anywhere for free, you could state that and that if they are posted anywhere for free that's without your permission and ask Amazon for citations. They may be shooting in the dark. But the bottom line is that, from their perspective, there's no reason why they shouldn't expect the e-books not to be offered to the public for free as well.

 

[PrincessErin]

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[sr71plt]

This was my reply:

Thank you very much for this email.
Prior to publishing my novels on Amazon I did have them available for free on two websites www.literotica.com as well as storiesonline.net
As per your requirements I removed them when I published them on Amazon.

I am the sole author of both stories.

I am not allowing these stories to be published for free on ANY website therefore I would like to know where these can be found online so I can make sure they are removed. It means that someone has stolen my stories.

If you can please reply so I know that my stories will not be blocked and please indicate where they are published so I can contact those websites to have them removed and possibly take legal matters in terms of copyright.

That looks good (although it might have been even better not to mention you had them on free websites ever. Amazon may still chose to drop them for that reason). (You might want to excise the name gave from your post here, though)

 

[Stella_Omega]

The easiest way to search for pirated work is to copy a sentence-- something that is a wee bit unique will help-- and paste it into google with quote marks before and aft.

Google will search for those exact words in that exact order. If it finds them it will likely be your story.

 

[Darkniciad]

The easiest way to search for pirated work is to copy a sentence-- something that is a wee bit unique will help-- and paste it into google with quote marks before and aft.

Google will search for those exact words in that exact order. If it finds them it will likely be your story.

More likely, it will be some porn blog that's a front for a pay site or a malware distributer, which has used part of your story as hidden text to try to fool Google into thinking it's a legitimate website

If anybody wants to check a site when you find it this way, I suggest you have your anti-virus and anti-malware up to date, as well as using Firefox with both Ad-block and No-script.

I've had page 1 of I don't know how many stories show up like that. They're not even visible on the site in question, but the text is in the HTML.

 

[sr71plt]

In this case I don't think that Princess E wants to go looking for them; she wants Amazon to establish they are there and wants to maintain that she doesn't know of any that Amazon can't identify.

The greater concern, I think, for Princess E is that, if Amazon isn't doing this across the board (which we should be watching out for), then most likely someone has told Amazon that Princess E is ripping off the stories of others.

 

[PrincessErin]

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[PrincessErin]

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[beatrice_dreams]

Encouraging news...

My apologies in advance if I'm missing something here, but reading the email you got from Kindle/Amazon actually gives me a fair amount of reassurance. The fact that they are proactively checking what gets sold on their website and whether the person selling it has the rights to do so is great news, no?

I can see that if we don't have the necessary documentation to prove to them that we are the copyright holder it could result in the books being blocked, but if we do have proof it could keep thieves from posting our writing. The fact that they have alerted you to the fact that your writing has been stolen is really helpful.

I assume this is where having writing registered with the Library of Congress is very helpful.

Again - sorry if I've got the wrong end of the stick on this one...

 

[PrincessErin]

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[sr71plt]

Are they really doing regular checking, though? Who else has received this e-mail?

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Is this for the Amazon Prime promotion where authors offer their work for free for the kindle for a share of a 500,000 kitty?

They might be stricter on that because the books are supposed to be exclusive to Amazon. I decided not to take part because my collections all feature some stories I've previously posted up on the internet. Once you put something up on the internet, you can't really take it down again

 

[PrincessErin]

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[PrincessErin]

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[shoulderblade]

The easiest way to search for pirated work is to copy a sentence-- something that is a wee bit unique will help-- and paste it into google with quote marks before and aft.

Google will search for those exact words in that exact order. If it finds them it will likely be your story.

Great idea IMHO. Its like planting a micro chip in your story to check on its web location.

Cost free and easy as well.