Holy Plagarism, Batman!

[brightlyiburn]

Yeah, that's right. I was sent an e-mail this afternoon from a kind, vigilant reader who found my work posted by someone who is not me.
The site on which this person posted was Fictionpress.com.
I'm letting everyone know, so they can, if they wish, see if their own stories are being stolen by people on that site.
I was wondering, should I contact Laurel as well and let her know?

 

[neonlyte]

Yeah, that's right. I was sent an e-mail this afternoon from a kind, vigilant reader who found my work posted by someone who is not me.
The site on which this person posted was Fictionpress.com.
I'm letting everyone know, so they can, if they wish, see if their own stories are being stolen by people on that site.
I was wondering, should I contact Laurel as well and let her know?

Yep, do it. She vigilant at protecting the rights of authors who 'publish' through Lit.

EDIT: Seriously consider putting a 'copyright' label on your stories - see Ogg's, he has a nifty warning notice, would deter all but the most stupid. (PS - I keep forgetting to do the same myself )

 

[KarenAM]

Notify Fictionpress too. I have it on good authority that they delete plagarism with vigor.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Notify Fictionpress too. I have it on good authority that they delete plagarism with vigor.

Oh, I did, believe me.
Funnily enough, I do have an account on Fictionpress. I don't post my stories there because they don't allow adult stories.
I'm a little surprised someone did that. I'm on enough websites, so they had to have realized I would have found that eventually.

 

[oggbashan]

I have a copyright notice on most of my stories.

It doesn't stop theft - they just steal the story including the notice and usually leave my name attached.

WTF anyone on a Japanese Teen Fist Fucking site would want to read my stories? I have no idea.

Og

This is my header:


Copyright Oggbashan February 2005
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.

Just change the writer's name and anyone could use it - with my blessing. The notice itself isn't copyrighted.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Thing is, most sites put a Copyright message on your stories when you post them. They are, therefor, taking responsiblity for protecting your story, which is why most sites come down so hard on plagarism.

I did find out where she took the story from, though. I find it incredibly hilarious that she took it from the site where I first began posting almost a year ago. Not only are my full archives there, but...Well, she stole The Artist's Wolf! With thousands of hits and about a hundred reviews on it! The story that's been among my most popular and for which I'm best known.
She only posted it today, but it had two reviews on it, apparently from people who had never read the story. I contacted them and let them know that they could find the complete story, published by the actual author, elsewhere. Hey, if I get new readers out of this, more to my benefit, right?

 

[cantdog]

Smooth work, brightly. Most of the time they just steal my work on porn sites, I've never seen it under another byline, just out there. We google for our stories from time to time. I found three stories on six sites the last time I trawled the web.

 

[CharleyH]

WTF anyone on a Japanese Teen Fist Fucking site would want to read my stories? I have no idea.

Sorry BUT ROFL.

Colly wrote a beautifully pointed and articulate letter to a site once, and received a great response. I hope you have as much luck.

 

[oggbashan]

How do I deal with this?

I just did a google search on oggbashan. I had 10,900 hits.

Apart from the hits on Literotica and Yahoo there are another 9,000. I did a few random checks. They all included my copyright notice as well so it was no one else but me even if on a Finnish, Russian or Japanese site.

Are my stories THAT good that the whole world wants to rip them off? I don't believe it. So why?

Og

 

[Guest]

Re: How do I deal with this?

Are my stories THAT good that the whole world wants to rip them off? I don't believe it. So why?

Og

Yes. You are good.

Oh, man! Do you remember the time Riven_Caulfield/she-who-trolls-CV ripped a couple of lines from one of my altos' story? That was four years ago. And those Riven stories were such a pain in the ass to read. Each chapters were six or more pages of teenage drivel written by a middle aged woman. A kind of Julie Birchil, but not as good.

I don't think the troll is a family kind of person.