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So this book is at odd one out for me. It's a creepy story that is not very romantic in that sense. But it is about love and that makes Our Wives Under The Sea one of my lesficfavs.
Landing is a treasure. It was such a joy to read. Yes, because it hit close to home. But it wasn't just that. I loved everything about this book.
Pages For Her - Sylvia Brownrigg
Available at Kobo Pages For Her is not a book I would ordinarily recommend. Maybe because itās not gay enough, whatever that means. I donāt know. I recommend this book regardless because it was such a beautiful read. And I would even go so far to say that Sylvia Brownrigg wrote a feminist book which would make it good for me. Itās twenty years later since Pages For You where Flannery and Anneā¦
Another marvelous novel! I am in awe. How come I didn't know about Sylvia Brownrigg and her beautiful novel Pages for You? It doesn't matter, I found it, read it, loved it.
The Safekeep
Available at Kobo in English and Dutch I donāt even know where to start. This book is mind blowing. So much story, so much love, so much emotion, so much pain. The Safekeep is hard and soft at once. I feel Yael van der Wouden did such a good job unveiling trauma in such a delicate way. But you can still feel it, deeply. There is love too, deep love. In The Safekeep itās 1961 in Overijssel, theā¦
Taylor Jenkins Reid did it again. Atmosphere made me cry in the best way ā I did not expect it to become one of my top lesfic recommendations.
SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).
I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.
IN SHORT
Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.
When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media postsāusingĀ
his dyslexia;Ā
his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; andĀ
a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a āvalidā claim,
as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.
When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his āapologiesā as well as his website (allegedlyāitās possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasnāt any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there.Ā
THE TAKEAWAYS
1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain;Ā
2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, andĀ
3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but theyāre NOT DELETED from Weitzmanās servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again.Ā
THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)
Hey folks, I doubt many people will see this message or the comment I left about it down below, but if youāre reblogging this post with death threats or calls for physical violence against this man, I am blocking you. I want this post to reach as many people as possible, and if you carry on like that youāre not just incriminating yourself, youāre giving tumblr reasons to nuke this entire recap. Thank you.
For the people coming in after Weitzman made the fanwork hidden to people who hadnāt signed up for an account beforehand, there does appear to be a way to see if your fic was lifted: searching for the fic title (+ your username maybe, if your title is a song lyric or something else used frequently) + wordstream will still bring up your fic if it was included in the theft:
Again, sharing this info is appreciated, because (understandably) Iām getting a lot of questions about this, and I will not be answering all of them individually. Share (and check back for) all additional info in the comments either here on on the latest Reddit thread if you can, because even useful additions in reblogs are difficult to keep up with. Thank you!
I sent messages to him every single day multiple times a day until I got this reply
Cliff Weitzman says it will take a week from takedown for our work to be given back to us completelyāminus that pesky little part where he fed it all to AI, of course! I guess we will all find out if heās been telling the truth about removing the work by December 31st 2024 (seven days after the fanworks disappeared from view).
Speechify CEO Weitzman has yet to communicate ANYTHING about his website & app word-stream taking fanworks and then quickly hiding them when we found outānor this announcement in the screenshot aboveāANYWHERE PUBLIC, so letās help him get the word out!
Weitzmanās āXā account
Weitzmanās Instagram account
Weitzmanās LinkedIn account
Weitzmanās YouTube account
Note that he will likely block you (like he did me) if you tag his username directly, so make sure to hashtag #cliffweitzman, #speechify and #wordstream as well when commenting or making your own posts about the issue!
Also, I know nothing about TikTok and donāt follow fandom on YouTube, but if anyone knows anyone who might be interested in covering this issue there too, Iād be extremely grateful for you bringing this post to their attention.
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ADDITION DECEMBER 29th: Works that were accessed previously by people who signed up to gather more info before Cliff Weitzman made all fanworks disappear from view are still accessible on his servers today. Also check the comments for more info as it comes in!
Update December 30th: all the works I personally saw were up on word-stream before they were hidden from view still come up in search results today and are still accessible as AI-generated audiobooks through his app to people who signed up for his app before Weitzman hid the works from view.
Also, this was an interesting find, when googling Cliff Weitzman + fanfiction:
You may remember that one of Cliff Weitzmanās arguments that his theft was somehow defensible was the idea that word-stream was āonly in betaā. (See above for the screenshot of his message stating this). Really, Cliff? Then why were you already advertising the operation on your main platform two days before we discovered it? Why was its payment system fully functional?
Friends, if you really want to help, please, if you can, donāt stop at merely reblogging this post. The previous reblog above lists some things you can do to help this issue break containment and make Weitzman take accountability for what he did. As things stand, weāre allowing him to make this entire thing quietly go away. And as someone in the comments said, wouldnāt it be awesome if we could broadcast this issue broadly enough that whenever someone does an online search for this man, or his company Speechify, his theft is one of the first results to come up?
Weitzman is either willfully or carelessly risking bringing about the end of freely available fanmade media by attempting to monetize it. If he receives zero consequences for this, itās going to happen over & over & over again, and eventually the IP holders of the source material are going to go ahead and stop tolerating widely accessible fanwork entirely. Can we try to help not make that happen? Please?
Amazing: thanks to youtackything on Bluesky, we have the screenshots of Weitzmanās advertisement for word-stream!
Again, this was posted to Speechifyās website (at what is now a dead link) on December 20th, a full three days before Weitzman tried to make the argument that he couldnāt be held accountable for his theft because we werenāt supposed to find out about it yet.
Also, to the surprise of absolutely no one, the listings of our works are still visible and fully accessible to word-stream members today.
Also: to the person who tried to add Cliffās involvement with word-stream to Cliffās Wikipedia page, I owe you one (really, dm me, I have an excellent recipe for banana bread) but sadly it looks like your changes were already reverted. Anyone out there with an older Wikipedia membership who wants to give it a try?
All the recs on my blog are available in e-book or at least digitally. This title is not. But I have to tell you about this one. I've read t
I have to tell you about this one. Iāve read this novel by Cameron Abbott at least 4 times. I love the delicious slow burn inĀ To The Edge. Itās a friends to lovers but man, the buildup is terrific!
Discover the captivating story of Jessica and Cat in Karin Kallmaker's first novel, In Every Port. A tale of self-discovery, love, and accep
Written in 1989 set in the 70's, this is a regular lesfic classic by Karin Kallmaker ā¤ļø.
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Also to anyone who HAS watched it holy shit this video is so good
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Also to anyone who HAS watched it holy shit this video is so good
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I was finally brave enough to read Ask Me Again, book 2 in the Ask, Tell series. And it was definitely worth it! Wow, what an emotional roll
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