Plagiarism/copyright infringement reports and responses

[SimonDoom]

Has anyone here had personal experience with a story being ripped off and republished on this site? Did you report it and if so how long did it take to be resolved?

I ask because this morning there was a story posted that is such a blatant case of ripping off someone else's story that I couldn't believe it when I saw it. The true author caught it right away and demanded it be removed, but I don't know if he reported it. I did.

I guess one shouldn't be surprised, but it's SO obvious that, yes, I'm surprised.

Here's the story posted today: https://www.literotica.com/s/just-this-once-12

And here's the story posted in 2015 that it rips off: https://www.literotica.com/s/naked-14

They're both incest stories. The difference? The ripoff story changes a mother into a sister. There are some wording changes, but the copying is blatant and extreme.

 

[rutger5]

When I first joined Lit less than two months ago and started to post stories a reader commented that a story of mine was already posted here under another username and was wondering if I'd stolen it. (It had already been posted on another site years ago, which must be where the thief stole it from.)

I informed Laurel via PM and she removed stolen story and banned thief account within two days, I believe. Slightly different here as story has been changed some but if it's found to be a rip off I don't doubt it will be taken care of.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Pretty ballsy to rip someone off and post it on the same site! Wow.

If you've reported it, Laurel should take it down pretty quick and ban the thief's ass.

 

[beachbum1958]

Someone took one of my stories and posted it in another genre to the original, with a little bit of judicious tweaking to fit the genre profile, and a few paraphrased passages, but Laurel agreed that it was plagiarised, a stream of people reported it, and the story was taken down and the account banned inside two days.

There was one twerp who lifted most of my stories, and most of the stories of a wide group of Lit authors, and published them in an Asstr account; that I couldn't do anything about, but some tick lifting my work and reposting it as his own work on the same site and gambling on no-one noticing took some serious brass neck.