Is it just me?....

[quietmischief]

I took some time off of Lit, but starting to make a comeback. Did a story search of what I wanted to read, and saw a story that I wrote in 2011 that was "written" by another author 10 years later. I fully understand that there will be similar topics and scenes written, but if someone else literally takes your entire story and claims it as their own, it just irritates me. Maybe I shouldn't let it bother me, but would have preferred that if they were going to take it, to at least give me some credit as original author (just a simple "adapted from"), to possibly direct people to some of my other stories as well. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

 

[NotWise]

I took some time off of Lit, but starting to make a comeback. Did a story search of what I wanted to read, and saw a story that I wrote in 2011 that was "written" by another author 10 years later. I fully understand that there will be similar topics and scenes written, but if someone else literally takes your entire story and claims it as their own, it just irritates me. Maybe I shouldn't let it bother me, but would have preferred that if they were going to take it, to at least give me some credit as original author (just a simple "adapted from"), to possibly direct people to some of my other stories as well. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

There is a "report this story" button on the story page. You can report the copy, provide a link to your original, and ask Laurel to remove the copy.

 

[Bamagan]

I took some time off of Lit, but starting to make a comeback. Did a story search of what I wanted to read, and saw a story that I wrote in 2011 that was "written" by another author 10 years later. I fully understand that there will be similar topics and scenes written, but if someone else literally takes your entire story and claims it as their own, it just irritates me. Maybe I shouldn't let it bother me, but would have preferred that if they were going to take it, to at least give me some credit as original author (just a simple "adapted from"), to possibly direct people to some of my other stories as well. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

You can try reporting it. I'd suggest checking the Wayback Machine* or other internet archive to see if you can access your original story to provide the site with a timestamped piece of evidence to prove it was previously published under your name (or at least a name different from whoever reposted it). That should be adequate to get the new version removed, and the 'author' may get banned or otherwise punished.

*That's assuming, of course, that your 'comeback' means that you deleted the original from Literotica. If it's still here, reporting them will be even easier.

 

[quietmischief]

You can try reporting it. I'd suggest checking the Wayback Machine* or other internet archive to see if you can access your original story to provide the site with a timestamped piece of evidence to prove it was previously published under your name (or at least a name different from whoever reposted it). That should be adequate to get the new version removed, and the 'author' may get banned or otherwise punished.

*That's assuming, of course, that your 'comeback' means that you deleted the original from Literotica. If it's still here, reporting them will be even easier.

It was on here. And is still on here. My profile was always here, I just didn't do as much reading for a while. Trying to get back into it a little bit, because I missed it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It was on here. And is still on here. My profile was always here, I just didn't do as much reading for a while. Trying to get back into it a little bit, because I missed it.

In that case it should be a straightforward matter to get the unauthorised copy taken down. If the author has other stories on their account, might be worth sharing their name so people can check whether their other stuff is also stolen.

It's not just you, most people on this forum would have a similar attitude to somebody stealing credit for their work.

 

[WittyUserName]

I took some time off of Lit, but starting to make a comeback. Did a story search of what I wanted to read, and saw a story that I wrote in 2011 that was "written" by another author 10 years later. I fully understand that there will be similar topics and scenes written, but if someone else literally takes your entire story and claims it as their own, it just irritates me. Maybe I shouldn't let it bother me, but would have preferred that if they were going to take it, to at least give me some credit as original author (just a simple "adapted from"), to possibly direct people to some of my other stories as well. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

It is definitely not just you. Every author hates plagiarism with a passion. We work incredibly hard on our stories. My philosophy was always "My work might be crap, but it's my crap."

 

[SimonDoom]

It's definitely not just you. Many of us have dealt with this. Feel free to report the story via a private message to Laurel.

 

[Voboy]

Welcome back!

Plagiarists suck. Report the copy at once, have it torn down, and out the "author" so that we can pile on.

 

[old_prof]

Welcome back!

Plagiarists suck. Report the copy at once, have it torn down, and out the "author" so that we can pile on.

More so, out the author so others can check whether this has been a pattern of theirs. If they have other stories, it's likely they have stolen other stories.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It was on here. And is still on here. My profile was always here, I just didn't do as much reading for a while. Trying to get back into it a little bit, because I missed it.

Use the Report function in the offending story and provide a link to yours, as evidence. The site usually responds pretty quickly to plagiarism reports.

 

[metropolinational]

I'm not trying to troll or start a fight. Does the site not run a plagiarism check before publishing?

Perhaps I don't know enough about plagiarism checkers, but I thought that something this blatant would have been caught quite reliably.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not trying to troll or start a fight. Does the site not run a plagiarism check before publishing?

Perhaps I don't know enough about plagiarism checkers, but I thought that something this blatant would have been caught quite reliably.

There's no evidence of such. That would mean scanning every new story against every other story in the dataset. That's a huge computing impost, which would have been an even bigger overhead 25 years ago.

The site relies on community policing to report plagiarists.

 

[metropolinational]

That would mean scanning every new story against every other story in the dataset. That's a huge computing impost, which would have been an even bigger overhead 25 years ago.

totally agree about 25 years ago. but today, doesn't plagiarism software just check google?

for example, just now I grabbed a single random sentence out of one of my stories. I plopped it into google with quotation marks around it and got only a single result back: my story. this is a story I just published like 2 weeks ago, and it's already fully indexed.

feels like there is a solution to this problem in there somewhere...

 

[quietmischief]

In that case it should be a straightforward matter to get the unauthorised copy taken down. If the author has other stories on their account, might be worth sharing their name so people can check whether their other stuff is also stolen.

It's not just you, most people on this forum would have a similar attitude to somebody stealing credit for their work.

I sent a message to Laurel about the story. I tried to go straight to the author, but they had all methods of contact closed, and comments were turned off. I tried to keep it low key, because I am not trying to cause trouble or hard feelings, just would like the recognition that it was my story that they basically just changed it to a footy match (the UK version) as opposed to a football game (my version). The author here is AnnieJames. Their story is The Football Car Strip Game. My story was Stripping in the Car. Comparing both stories, I don't think it was one that AnnieJames came up on their own. Again, not trying to be a jerk or complain about stuff, but as WittyUsername said, "My work may be crap, but it's my crap".

 

[RejectReality]

totally agree about 25 years ago. but today, doesn't plagiarism software just check google?

for example, just now I grabbed a single random sentence out of one of my stories. I plopped it into google with quotation marks around it and got only a single result back: my story. this is a story I just published like 2 weeks ago, and it's already fully indexed.

feels like there is a solution to this problem in there somewhere...

Hah! Well, you got lucky as fuck, then. Google has absolutely neutered the exact text search. Most of the time, it doesn't even return the known copy — nevermind the fifteen other sites where it's been wholly or partially plagairised.

I went through this a while back, attempting to prove someone was a filthy thief on another site. The only thing that eventually worked was using unique lines without the quotes for the exact text search, and limiting it to Lit with the site: function. Absent the site limiter, it would find maybe one or two unrelated results. With it, you got a bunch of unrelated results, and the one you were looking for somewhere on page 1.

Google has become fucking useless, AI infested, hallucinating garbage.

The system in place of user reports works reasonably well. Well enough, in fact, that I suggest to anyone who's removing and reposting an existing story that they should note that in an author's note at the beginning to avoid getting reported for plagiarism.

 

[Katie_Mae]

I sent a message to Laurel about the story. I tried to go straight to the author, but they had all methods of contact closed, and comments were turned off. I tried to keep it low key, because I am not trying to cause trouble or hard feelings, just would like the recognition that it was my story that they basically just changed it to a footy match (the UK version) as opposed to a football game (my version). The author here is AnnieJames. Their story is The Football Car Strip Game. My story was Stripping in the Car. Comparing both stories, I don't think it was one that AnnieJames came up on their own. Again, not trying to be a jerk or complain about stuff, but as WittyUsername said, "My work may be crap, but it's my crap".

Comparing the two, it's obvious that (the opening paragraphs, at least, I didn't read further) are just a blatant rip with a few names/words changed.

That's not "happening to write a similar story" or "being inspired by and not realising from where."

It's intentional and, as others have said, it's likely they've ripped off other people's work in the same way too. You're not causing trouble or hard feelings if you report it, if there's any trouble or hard feelings, it's the fault of the person who thought they could get away with a copy-paste-change-a-name-here-and-there.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I sent a message to Laurel about the story. I tried to go straight to the author, but they had all methods of contact closed, and comments were turned off. I tried to keep it low key, because I am not trying to cause trouble or hard feelings, just would like the recognition that it was my story that they basically just changed it to a footy match (the UK version) as opposed to a football game (my version). The author here is AnnieJames. Their story is The Football Car Strip Game. My story was Stripping in the Car. Comparing both stories, I don't think it was one that AnnieJames came up on their own. Again, not trying to be a jerk or complain about stuff, but as WittyUsername said, "My work may be crap, but it's my crap".

Did you use the "report story" button on their story? In my experience, Laurel's usual response to private messages about this kind of thing is to ask people to use that button. I think that makes the process easier on their side.

Hah! Well, you got lucky as fuck, then. Google has absolutely neutered the exact text search. Most of the time, it doesn't even return the known copy — nevermind the fifteen other sites where it's been wholly or partially plagairised.

Co-signed. It's absolute garbage these days :-/

 

[RejectReality]

AnnieJames sounds familiar... Was that the name that horked a bunch of stuff from Lit and published it to Amazon several years ago? Or a similar name? LC68, you out there? I remember you mentioning the incident fairly recently. ( Too lazy to search your posts to find it. LOL )

 

[quietmischief]

Did you use the "report story" button on their story? In my experience, Laurel's usual response to private messages about this kind of thing is to ask people to use that button. I think that makes the process easier on their side.

Co-signed. It's absolute garbage these days :-/

yes. I used the Report button, and linked my story to it. Thank you for all the help on here. makes me feel better about trying to write more again... even if it is crap. lol

 

[Bramblethorn]

AnnieJames sounds familiar... Was that the name that horked a bunch of stuff from Lit and published it to Amazon several years ago? Or a similar name? LC68, you out there? I remember you mentioning the incident fairly recently. ( Too lazy to search your posts to find it. LOL )

Huh. Looks like @quietmischief noticed this plagiarism four years ago and posted about it then, so yes, AnnieJames has been mentioned before.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/am-i-committing-plagiarism-or-not.1554745/page-2#post-94565584

 

[Voboy]

AnnieJames sounds familiar... Was that the name that horked a bunch of stuff from Lit and published it to Amazon several years ago? Or a similar name? LC68, you out there? I remember you mentioning the incident fairly recently. ( Too lazy to search your posts to find it. LOL )

Similar post, from the same section of the thread Bramble linked to just above.

 

[Seurat]

I think plagiarism is one thing all Lit authors actually agree on. I'm sure the admins are going to take a harsh response to such blatant theft; no author would want to publish somewhere that is seen as uncaring regarding the people that keep the lights on.

 

[quietmischief]

Huh. Looks like @quietmischief noticed this plagiarism four years ago and posted about it then, so yes, AnnieJames has been mentioned before.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/am-i-committing-plagiarism-or-not.1554745/page-2#post-94565584

Yeah Bramble, that was me. I just left for a while after that. I guess I didn't see if it was addressed or not. Kind of surprised it was still there. I had kind of forgotten about it, but was searching for stories to read recently and it popped up. Just brought up a bad taste again.

 

[Rob_Royale]

We often get posts from people who are asking if they can continue an apparently abandoned storyline from a writer who is absent from Lit for years, and they always get shut down. So, it seems that such works would also be easy pickings for a plagiarist who wants a little of the attention the OP got when they first posted their story.
I would also check the other erotica sites, for stories there from the same poster. I ran into that issue a little while ago.
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/plagiarism-on-storiesonline.1648402/

 

[RejectReality]

We often get posts from people who are asking if they can continue an apparently abandoned storyline from a writer who is absent from Lit for years, and they always get shut down. So, it seems that such works would also be easy pickings for a plagiarist who wants a little of the attention the OP got when they first posted their story.
I would also check the other erotica sites, for stories there from the same poster. I ran into that issue a little while ago.
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/plagiarism-on-storiesonline.1648402/

And that's the thread I was thinking of where the Amazon plagiarist was mentioned. Names aren't even remotely similar. LOL