Louise Taylor Warning

[oggbashan]

The UK copyright laws are different.

"Publishing" on the net is sufficient to establish a right to the work, and to provide a basis to pursue anyone infringing your copyright.

Unfortunately, as in the US, actually pursuing someone for breach of copyright is expensive unless you have a lawyer in the family who will work as a favour. Even then, there are costs.

Og (who has several lawyers in the extended family, but like almost all lawyers, they expect a substantial fee. The long-established form of solicitors who have worked for several generations of the Og family are better {and whisper it quietly - cheaper})

 

[Jake Marlow]

I'm starting to think you're Louise Taylor. What is your problem with me?

I have said multiple times I have not pursued anyone in court for money and have no intention of doing so because it is not worth the money. If I have said otherwise, quote it.

And yes, it is the website as it exists when you apply. Where did I imply I thought it was otherwise? If you can do it, then you should quote it. If I add anything to it after that then, yes, I will have to register that as well. I don't see where bluffing enters in on any of this.

And as I type all that I realize this thread has devolved into just you being a contrary dick and I am the idiot for being sucked in, so I'm out. Have fun.

 

[serpentwrap]

Question: Are stories, poems, submissions etc owned by the authors alone or jointly by literotica.com? What I mean to ask, does lietrotica.com have any right to the submissions they accept or do they leave all the rights to the author? If so, they should claim it boldly. If there is a joint copyright to the submissions, then literotica.com can also sue legally along with the authors whose works have been plagiarised?

Copyright laws are differ in different countries, though the basic premise remains the same. While plagiarists will poach stories, if they are so determined, one step could be to have a sticky in bold on every page claiming that "anyone caught excerpting passages from literotica.com for commercial purposes will be dealt with severely. Our team of member lawyers spread across in 143 countries (I'm guessing) will sue the living daylights of any plaigiarist." or words to this effect. This might act as a deterrent.

 

[3113]

Question: Are stories, poems, submissions etc owned by the authors alone or jointly by literotica.com?

Owned by the author alone. Lit is just renting you space to post them and getting the benefits of folk coming to it to read them.

What I mean to ask, does lietrotica.com have any right to the submissions they accept or do they leave all the rights to the author? If so, they should claim it boldly. If there is a joint copyright to the submissions, then literotica.com can also sue legally along with the authors whose works have been plagiarised?

Anyone can be sued--the question is, would it hold up in court? The first step is never to sue, but to inform the site that the work is plagiarized and ask them to take it down. Lit would take down any plagiarized work instantly (and likely ban the "author" who plagiarized it), so it probably would never get to the point of suing anyone. And no, they have no rights to the submissions they accept, but they do protect the rights of the authors who put up submissions. They have gone after plagiarized works on other websites aggressively.

 

[serpentwrap]

Many thanks for the lucid response.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm starting to think you're Louise Taylor. What is your problem with me?

I have said multiple times I have not pursued anyone in court for money and have no intention of doing so because it is not worth the money. If I have said otherwise, quote it.

And yes, it is the website as it exists when you apply. Where did I imply I thought it was otherwise? If you can do it, then you should quote it. If I add anything to it after that then, yes, I will have to register that as well. I don't see where bluffing enters in on any of this.

And as I type all that I realize this thread has devolved into just you being a contrary dick and I am the idiot for being sucked in, so I'm out. Have fun.

I assume you are addressing this to me.

No, I am not Louise Taylor (and I'm pretty sure I have far more work out there to consider needing protecting than you do).

What I am is someone who doesn't like to see people being fed a false sense of protection.

As I posted, do what you say you think can be done, and report back on what you were really able to do after you've done it.

Short of that you are inviting writers to bamboozle themselves.

 

[sr71plt]

Question: Are stories, poems, submissions etc owned by the authors alone or jointly by literotica.com? What I mean to ask, does lietrotica.com have any right to the submissions they accept or do they leave all the rights to the author? If so, they should claim it boldly. If there is a joint copyright to the submissions, then literotica.com can also sue legally along with the authors whose works have been plagiarised?

Copyright laws are differ in different countries, though the basic premise remains the same. While plagiarists will poach stories, if they are so determined, one step could be to have a sticky in bold on every page claiming that "anyone caught excerpting passages from literotica.com for commercial purposes will be dealt with severely. Our team of member lawyers spread across in 143 countries (I'm guessing) will sue the living daylights of any plaigiarist." or words to this effect. This might act as a deterrent.

Technically, what Literotica has is "nonexclusive electronic publishing rights," which doesn't change the original copyright holder's right to anything. It's "exclusive publishing rights" that starts to pull use rights from the author.