Plagiarism ??????

[jack_ffrost]

OK... I have written a story...and have received reader feedback, some of which seem to think they read a similar story many many years ago (three decades????) and I am not sure what to do.

When I started writing for Literotica a few months ago, I told a few friends. One of them (after a few beers) gave me a very sexy suggestion for a story. This was just a basic outline with a few key elements. I 'fleshed' out the story (if you will pardon the pun) into a very sexy story, very hot, very arousing (well it was while I was writing it anyway). Now I am unsure what to do. Is there a protocol for this? Do I just delete the comments that say its someone else's story from a mens magazine from the 70s? Do I withdraw the story all together?

I am new here and have discovered the joys of reading and now writing erotic literature and dont want to do the wrong thing. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Jack

 

[Weird Harold]

Now I am unsure what to do. Is there a protocol for this? Do I just delete the comments that say its someone else's story from a mens magazine from the 70s? Do I withdraw the story all together?

Unless the troll can come up with specifics (as in a copy of the alleged prior story), I'd just ignore them. I might put up a response to the allegation to the effect that copying a story written before you were born from a magazine your'e only like to find in an antiques store is a lot less likely explanation than "great minds think alike."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There's nothing new under the Sun. And almost all writing conforms to formula of one kind or another.

I reviewed 3 how-to-write texts this weekend; every one of them includes the same instructions.

The Bible has been looted more often than any one book or combination of books.

Plagiarism ought to be linked to material injury. That is, stealing a kiss from your woman is one thing, stealing a pair of her panties is another.

 

[sr71plt]

You can't copyright plotlines, just specific phrasing of words in bulk. I'd leave for the commenter to produce evidence the story is plagiarized (copied more or less word for word) or to stifle themselves.

 

[Oblimo]

Responding to the accusation will draw attention to it and might lend it credence. If it's just an anonymous comment, I'd say ignore it.

Unless your story has guys with mullets and handlebar mustache's banging free-loving broads in the back of a green-shag-carpet-lined van, in which case you might want to check out that 70's smut.

 

[3113]

Unless your story has guys with mullets and handlebar mustache's banging free-loving broads in the back of a green-shag-carpet-lined van, in which case you might want to check out that 70's smut.

This sounds kinda cool, Oblimo! Write it! Write it!

 

[Oblimo]

This sounds kinda cool, Oblimo! Write it! Write it!

LOL! Sorry, but when I seriously think about sex and the Seventies, I think of either a) Seka as Aunt Peg or b)...er, well, this...

Inflammation of the foreskin reminds of your smile
I've had ballanital chancroids for quite a little while
I gave my heart to NSU that lovely night in June
I ache for you my darling, and I hope you get well soon!

My clapped-out genitalia is not so bad for me
As the complete and utter failure every time I try to pee.
My doctor says my buboes are the worst he's ever seen;
My scrotum's painted orange and my balls are turning green!

My heart is vert tender though the parts are awful raw;
You might have been infected but you never were a bore.
I'm dying of your love, my love, I'm your spirochaetal clown,
I've left my body to science but I'm afraid they've turned it down!

My penile warts your herpes, my syphilitic sores.
Your moenelial infetion, how I miss you more and more.
Your dnob's itch my scrumpox, our lovely gonorrhoea...
At least we both were lying when we said that we were clear...

Our syphilic kisses sealed the secret of our tryst,
You gave me scrotal pustules with a quick flick of your wrist.
Your trichovaginitis sent shivers down my spine
I got snail tracks in my anus when you spirochaetes met mine!

Gonoccalurethritis, streptocalbalinitis...
Meningo myelitis, diplococcal cephalitis...
Epididymitis interstitial keratitis...
Syphilitic choroiditis and anteriorrrr uveiiiitiiiis!

 

[jack_ffrost]

Gasping for breath

LOL! Sorry, but when I seriously think about sex and the Seventies, I think of either a) Seka as Aunt Peg or b)...er, well, this...

ROFPMSL
Off topic...but very funny... I love it...mind if I plagiarise that?

 

[Lisa Denton]

OK... I have written a story...and have received reader feedback, some of which seem to think they read a similar story many many years ago (three decades????) and I am not sure what to do.

Jack

"They" as in plural? Is that a typo? If not is anyone of these peoples throwing serious allegations not anonymous? Where you could ask them if they could show you this similar story in a PM.

If not, and they are just anonymous assholes. You could, if you think necessary, re-submit your story with a challenge at the end. That if any anonymous asshole thinks it was copied to PM Laurel and Manu with proof. As admins here they would pull your story immediately. Manu is kinda nice and might just slap you around some also, but Laurel would prolly pull all your stories, ban you for life, block your IP from reaching the registration page so you couldn't come back as an ALT, report you to interpol police and shoot your dog.

We are all partly products of what we have experienced in life, seen, heard, read. You may have a similar story to something someone else read, or something you read and don't even remember. If it were merely similar that would show up easily, and you could not accidentally write something word for word.

If these assholes are challenged to report what is a serious accusation they may remember that Alice in your story, who was Doris in that other story, also had sex with a horse, which isn't allowed here, so they might be wrong.

Anyways, that is just a suggestion if this really bugs you.

Also, they are prolly wrong because I don't think there was porn three decades ago, I mean shit, isn't that before Windows95?