story theft

[lc69hunter]

One of the stories that I saved long ago was published on here 10/16/07 by @DiggerDave, titled https://www.literotica.com/s/a-creamy-birthday-present. I admit that I think that one of the most intimate, sexy dirty erotic things a man can do for his wife or lover is go down on her after and do cleanup, and besides the extra couple of orgasms it gets her just from the oral pleasure, she gets off on the kinkiness of it . Anyway, @DiggerDave is no longer here on Lit ( last post was in 2015) or I would have contacted him.

Anyway, I was on Amazon with a totally different search, and by accident found the very same story, word for word, no name changes at all, listed on Amazon, published by some guy named Jove Plaza, on 06/15/2018. He is not a member here under that name.

I am pretty sure they are not the same person, as their stories have very little in common, as the Amazon publisher focuses on most Interracial stuff and @DiggerDave has none of that.

How often do other authors run into that?

 

[Euphony]

How often do other authors run into that?

It's as common as how much you go looking for it.

This is the double edged sword of Lit. Exposure is greater than many other avenues but puts you square in the sights of those who might abuse your generosity in sharing.

BS for sure but hopefully a creator has a bit of a mindset of creation isn't a singular lightning strike event but creating the conditions to encourage motivation which leads to likely better work than what was stolen.

I hate the dampening effect it has on said motivation but, sadly, that's part of the overcoming process (which is how we get better)

 

[MillieDynamite]

A copyright will cost you at least $45.00 to file. If you use a lawyer, the price will go up considerably.

 

[SeraphNocturne]

It's sadly extremely common, I've had a go or two, and check rather regularly since. I've seen quite a few authors, especially those with impressive followings have to deal with thieves. I think it just comes with the territory of publishing for free on a site with little between authors and pirates, doesn't take anything at all to rip a story. I think Millie's on the money, a proper copyright will help but even then, only so much unless you want to lawyer up and sue. It's really is sad it's such an issue.