My story showed up on YouTube with robot narration
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EmilyMiller
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It’s your copyright, not Literotica’s.
Contact Google and make a complaint.
I’ve been told it’s happened with some of my stories, never bothered to look into it. This is a just a hobby.
Emily
Contact Google and make a complaint.
I’ve been told it’s happened with some of my stories, never bothered to look into it. This is a just a hobby.
Emily
Helgamite
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you can go to the video and report it as copyright. i'm not sure how youtube\google handles it tho. if you have to provide evidence it actually is yours or what not.
like Emily said, report it and follow through.
ElectricBlue
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It's your story, not Literotica's, so you need to do the take down, if you could be bothered doing it. You'd have to prove your ownership both to Reddit and YouTube.
mildlyaroused
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File a copyright claim. Do not just comment or contact the channel to have it removed, because while they'll probably oblige they won't get a copyright strike. If you get it taken down through a proper claim the channel can get a strike, which makes it harder for them to continue stealing content.
Bramblethorn
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Alternative is to see whether any of the content violates YT policy and report it on those grounds, which doesn't require proving ownership.
MrPixel
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Why doesn't anybody name names when they report this stuff here?
I, for one, don't cruise YT for audio porn and honestly don't care all that much. But if somebody was making it a point to steal material originating here, if I knew the account name I could search and see if anything of mine was there, and I could act accordingly.
My point is I'm fat dumb and happy because YT is not my medium, and that's what the thieves are counting on. If I knew where to specifically look, I might have half a chance put an end to somebody making money on something I'm donating to the LitE community and not for their profit.
I, for one, don't cruise YT for audio porn and honestly don't care all that much. But if somebody was making it a point to steal material originating here, if I knew the account name I could search and see if anything of mine was there, and I could act accordingly.
My point is I'm fat dumb and happy because YT is not my medium, and that's what the thieves are counting on. If I knew where to specifically look, I might have half a chance put an end to somebody making money on something I'm donating to the LitE community and not for their profit.
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having a list of names of YT stealers would also help with keeping track of repeat offenders as well.
mildlyaroused
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Someone should make a thread where you link the video AND the channel every time you find something stolen, then other authors can go in to check for their own content. If you only link the video and it gets taken down then the link becomes redundant. I understand that Literotica can't afford to spend time and effort scouring YouTube for our content, but authors themselves could be more organised as a unit.
OffNSFW
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Welcome to social media, where art just magicks itself into existence and is free for anyone to recirculate for fun and profit.
What I'm saying is, this stuff happens constantly. Entire pages are dedicated exclusively to stolen content. Unless this one is especially important to you, I wouldn't sweat it.
Having said that, YouTube is scared shitless of being held liable for IP infringement and will probably go after this channel if you want them to. But there are countless pages like this one on every platform. It takes zero effort to create and maintain, which is why it happens in the first place.
What I'm saying is, this stuff happens constantly. Entire pages are dedicated exclusively to stolen content. Unless this one is especially important to you, I wouldn't sweat it.
Having said that, YouTube is scared shitless of being held liable for IP infringement and will probably go after this channel if you want them to. But there are countless pages like this one on every platform. It takes zero effort to create and maintain, which is why it happens in the first place.
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They shouldn't, really, unless the complainant can prove ownership--which, in the United States can only be established by holding a formal copyright, one applied and paid for. This can, and will, lead to false claims of ownership just for trolling or for nastier reasons.
This thread talks about owning the copyright--you only effectively do so in the United States in terms of taking legal actions if you actually filed for and paid for a formal copyright on the work.
OffNSFW
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You're right--they shouldn't. And the fact that they do is the bane of the existence of many legitimate YouTube creators. (Ask any of the majors how often they have to field frivolous strikes, demonetizations, takedowns...) As with pretty much every social media platform, there isn't a good way dealing with this. Legitimate thieves learn how to game the system or just move on to the next thing, while legitimate creators get fucked by a set of rules that's supposed to be there to protect them.
I like that you use the word "effectively." It distinguishes between what's technically legal on paper and what's truly legal in terms of who gets away with it and who doesn't.
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I assume that my stories are too long for anyone to bother with stealing. It would take too much effort to convert them to audio or edit them to hide their original source.
Then again, it could be that I write nothing but crap.
Then again, it could be that I write nothing but crap.
Carnevil9
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I gotta ask: how did you happen to find it? Out of all the millions of videos on YouTube?
I'm asking because I'm curious to see if any of my stories have received the same treatment.
Every one of these I've seen looks like an LW story. Are the doing other kinds?
Helgamite
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https://youtube.com/@slakeblake?si=WSopKUrEEEHBIXqT
This guy has quite a few stories. Still posting too as of 1 hour ago
This guy has quite a few stories. Still posting too as of 1 hour ago
I think I heard he's crediting Reddit, so it may be that someone there is doing the scraping. Lot's of YT channels are devoted to reading Reddit posts.
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Part of me does take it as a compliment. However, there are a few problems.
1) They are making money from my hard work.
2) They aren't crediting me.
3) The butchered and I mean BUTCHERED the story. Jokes in the story don't make sense any more, the story is censored removing all of the fire in it, and people in the comments are complaining that it makes no fucking sense... because it doesn't.
4) They have a male AI reading the story, in spite of the fact that the story is obviously told from the wife's POV... Plus the title is straight up incorrect.
Range Cold ← Here's the original.
Hopefully soon that second link won't work.
Plathfan
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For that, they would need to pay for a business channel, which your pickpocket doesn't. Otherwise, the video you linked would start with an ad.
RejectReality
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It does if you view it on YouTube, but having an ad doesn't mean a channel is monetized.
Regardless, someone is profiting from it, and it ain't the author.
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Yes, it is.
