Plagiarised! What can I do?!

[boysetsfire]

GRRR!! In such a seemingly tight-knit community made up completely of other authors and amateur artists, I THOUGHT that this sort of thing wouldn't be a problem. But see for yourself. I posted a story called "After Hours" waaaay back in 2004. Look it up on the search page.

NOW, look up a story posted a few days ago called "TexASS", by some clown named "jahrugby". Ok...did this person even BOTHER to change any of the damn WORDS?! I kinda thought the idea of fraud was to NOT get caught.

My question for all you authors out there is: has this ever happened to you? If so, what did you do about it? I've emailed both the author and Laurel (a moderator or webmaster here, from what I gather), and have gotten no response on either front. I don't think it's too much to ask to have this story removed ASAP!

In the meantime, you all can help me out by giving the offending author the lowest rating possible. I seriously can't believe some people. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the reader/author who brought this to my attention only a day after its posting.

If Laurel or anyone else with some authority on Literotica reads this, please please please help me out and enforce the website's policies! Literary plagiarism drives me crazy!

Cheers,
~BoySetsFire

 

[Guest]

PM Laurel. She receives too many emails and cannot get to them all.

I haven't yet checked but you mean someone has posted a story on Lit that is a rip-off of one of your Lit stories?

If so, PM Laurel with links to both and she will take care of it very quickly.

 

[scriptordelecto]

Be patient, my dear. I'm sure Laurel won't let something like that slide. I dounderstand your anger and frustration, though. In your position, I would be angry too, although I don't think trolling is the answer, especially since the story will get pulled anyway.

 

[Guest]

Wow. Bold and brash, and clueless are they.

Forward the links to Laurel. The story will be gone and the person banned by as soon as tomorrow, I would imagine.

Best of luck!




Posted in 2004

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=146481

After Hours
by boysetsfire ©

The rain poured down in sheets across my windshield and hammered like a tinsmith on the thin roof of my cheap used car. I leaned forward on the steering wheel, driving slowly, my wipers going as fast as possible, as futile as the attempt was. An approaching set of headlights blinded me enough so that I had to hit the brakes until he passed. I flipped him off with a grumble, even though I knew he couldn't see me.

"Fuck," I muttered. I rolled down the window and was greeted with a cold blast of fresh Texas rain. I was in the panhandle, headed east back home to Baltimore after spring semester at U of So-Cal. Somehow I had envisioned a cross-country trip as being more romantic. But there I was, with my head out the window of my car so I could see, driving 20 mph down a lonely stretch of road on the edge of nowhere. I could only see up to the end of my headlights, but with every flash of lightning I was reminded that the road went straight as an arrow all the way to the horizon.

I smelled something.



Posted on 3/7/07

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=299653

TexASS
by jahrugby ©

The rain poured down in sheets across my windshield and hammered like a tinsmith on the thin roof of my cheap used car. I leaned forward on the steering wheel, driving slowly, my wipers going as fast as possible, as futile as the attempt was. An approaching set of headlights blinded me enough so that I had to hit the brakes until he passed. I flipped him off with a grumble, even though I knew he couldn't see me.

"Fuck," I muttered. I rolled down the window and was greeted with a cold blast of fresh Texas rain. I was in the panhandle, headed east back home to Baltimore after spring semester at U of So-Cal. Somehow I had envisioned a cross-country trip as being more romantic. But there I was, with my head out the window of my car so I could see, driving 20 mph down a lonely stretch of road on the edge of nowhere. I could only see up to the end of my headlights, but with every flash of lightning I was reminded that the road went straight as an arrow all the way to the horizon.

I smelled something.

 

[wanderlustress]

AMAZING!!

Man, I feel your pain and hope it gets resolved soon.

 

[starrkers]

Probably the quickest way is the use the "Is there a problem with this story" button on the bottom of it.
Explain the problem, add a link to your original and it'll be fixed pronto.

I had a problem (editing wise) with a story of mine and used that method to have it pulled from the site. It was gone within an hour.

 

[R. Richard]

PM Laurel. She receives too many emails and cannot get to them all.

Let me just reinforce what Sweetsubsarahh said, always PM Laurel, never e-mail. Laurel does a damn good job on plagiarizing and theft of stories by other sites.

 

[Tom Collins]

I'm dumbfounded. the depths of human stupidity never cease to amaze me. You'd thing the imbecille would've at least taken it to another site. What a fuckwit.

 

[SlickTony]

Yowza! Didn't even have the decency or smarts to try and paraphrase it. verbatim. Sheesh.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Stories stolen by another site - yes. But out right plagurism by another Lit member - never heard of it. Let's cut his nutz off

 

[Tom Collins]

Stories stolen by another site - yes. But out right plagurism by another Lit member - never heard of it. Let's cut his nutz off

The bio claims it's a bi woman from cali...cut her tits off an' use 'em fer fish bait, eh?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The bio claims it's a bi woman from cali...cut her tits off an' use 'em fer fish bait, eh?

Hmmmm... mandatory sterilization, at least. We wouldn't want her contaminating the gene pool.

 

[Tom Collins]

Hmmmm... mandatory sterilization, at least. We wouldn't want her contaminating the gene pool.

Well, women do have gonads too. Could cut them out, put them into a Ronco dehydrator and make her wear them as earrings. * *

 

[starrkers]

jahrugby's story has been pulled.

 

[Liar]

Jezz. Cut & paste ain't writitng. When are people gonna learn?

Impressive reaction time for Laurel though.

 

[Guest]

Jezz. Cut & paste ain't writitng. When are people gonna learn?

Impressive reaction time for Laurel though.

She's a stand-up, isn't she?

 

[jomar]

I don't even get it. What's the point of an anonymous "author" stealing another anonymous author's story and reposting it on a free website (especially the same one). Makes absolutely no sense at all to me.

 

[boysetsfire]

Wow. They ARE pretty quick. Thanks for the support, people. I'll remember to just PM Laurel in the future. Also, I apologize if I came off as a bit harsh in that first post. Frustration poured over, I suppose. And many thanks to her and any other webmasters that may have aided in the removal of the story. A fine, upstanding crew we have here!

As for why they would have posted to the same site, I can't imagine, although I can't imagine outright stealing someone's ideas either. I'll vote for mandatory sterilization, as well as the necklace. Why don't we add in a day in the town square's stocks in front of an angry crowd armed with various missiles?

Ta, all
~SetsFire~

 

[Stella_Omega]

Wow. They ARE pretty quick. Thanks for the support, people. I'll remember to just PM Laurel in the future. Also, I apologize if I came off as a bit harsh in that first post. Frustration poured over, I suppose. And many thanks to her and any other webmasters that may have aided in the removal of the story. A fine, upstanding crew we have here!

As for why they would have posted to the same site, I can't imagine, although I can't imagine outright stealing someone's ideas either. I'll vote for mandatory sterilization, as well as the necklace. Why don't we add in a day in the town square's stocks in front of an angry crowd armed with various missiles?

Ta, all
~SetsFire~

Don't forget this site is available to anyone with an internet connection-
Just because people post here doesn't mean they are intelligent or principled, or even decent writers...

I remember last years something like this happened in the poetry group. And also in poetry, a woman was stole poems from Lit and posted them on another site under her own name; that was pretty pathetic!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

I'm glad it's gone and I'm sorry she copied your work...

but at least she thought it was worth copying!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Stories stolen by another site - yes. But out right plagurism by another Lit member - never heard of it. Let's cut his nutz off

Are you selling tickets?

The advice is simple and correct:
- PM laurel, giving html references and lit story/iuthor details
- report the story under 'other' as plagiarism.
- send a stinking private feedback to the guy who has done this.

 

[Karen Kraft]

GRRR!! In such a seemingly tight-knit community made up completely of other authors and amateur artists, I THOUGHT that this sort of thing wouldn't be a problem. But see for yourself. I posted a story called "After Hours" waaaay back in 2004. Look it up on the search page.

NOW, look up a story posted a few days ago called "TexASS", by some clown named "jahrugby". Ok...did this person even BOTHER to change any of the damn WORDS?! I kinda thought the idea of fraud was to NOT get caught.

My question for all you authors out there is: has this ever happened to you? If so, what did you do about it? I've emailed both the author and Laurel (a moderator or webmaster here, from what I gather), and have gotten no response on either front. I don't think it's too much to ask to have this story removed ASAP!

In the meantime, you all can help me out by giving the offending author the lowest rating possible. I seriously can't believe some people. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the reader/author who brought this to my attention only a day after its posting.

If Laurel or anyone else with some authority on Literotica reads this, please please please help me out and enforce the website's policies! Literary plagiarism drives me crazy!

Cheers,
~BoySetsFire

It looks like it might have been lifted from the BoyFromEngland publication of March 31, 2008 and dropped here. Send a short and to-the-point plagiarism complaint, via PM, to Laurel. She's busy, so keep the pontification to yourself (just my suggestion). You have a right to your own work and everybody here understands that.

 

[sr71plt]

It looks like it might have been lifted from the BoyFromEngland publication of March 31, 2008 and dropped here. Send a short and to-the-point plagiarism complaint, via PM, to Laurel. She's busy, so keep the pontification to yourself (just my suggestion). You have a right to your own work and everybody here understands that.

Ahem. Did you look at that dates of the posts? Original story posting in 2004; last posting to this thread in 2007. Hardly lifted from a 2008 publication then. The real mystery is how/why this thread got resurrected.

 

[Scotsman69]

The posts may be old...

Ahem. Did you look at that dates of the posts? Original story posting in 2004; last posting to this thread in 2007. Hardly lifted from a 2008 publication then. The real mystery is how/why this thread got resurrected.

But the issue isn't, alas.

I've had cause to PM Laurel twice. Once when one of my partner's stories was plagiarised (I knew it well, as I edited it for her). And the second time when someone posted a story which was clearly about my partner, WHEN SHE HAD EXPRESSLY TOLD THE AUTHOR THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT IT POSTED.

On both occasions the offending story was pulled.

 

[bronzeage]

Ahem. Did you look at that dates of the posts? Original story posting in 2004; last posting to this thread in 2007. Hardly lifted from a 2008 publication then. The real mystery is how/why this thread got resurrected.

My guess is that the OP has this thread on email notification and posting in this thread is the secret contact method to inform him of the next arrival of the inter-galactic space bus.