#fic stealing

[clarkeysbedchem]

it’s honestly laughable, the person who stole ur work, the master list on their posts literally links back to your profile, it’s very embarrassing for them and probably extremely frustrating for you

you’re joking !!! thats actually so funny, ive got them blocked so praying that’ll stop them from stealing my fics now 😭

[danibug727]

My friend Skylar didn't know it was your friend's fic and she got very sad about what happened but also about what you told her... she's innocent it's not her fault she didn't know and she got really sad because you blocked her and I wanted to apologize to you and your friend but... she really didn't know anything

She didn't KNOW it was her fic?? Are you kidding me? Do you think I'm stupid or that my friend is stupid? It's literally Spooky's works that had a few words changed and claimed as their own. Is that why she constantly messages Spooky asking her to write more and more? She doesn't just have ONE of Spooky's fics posted, she has TWO. It's one thing to appreciate the writing of another author but a completely different thing to STEAL it and post it on another fic posting website claiming it's your own. She's only sorry because she got caught. She knows what she did was wrong and she needs to apologize to Spooky and take all the works down immediately. I'm not the only one who has reported her work to ff.net either as well as tumblr. I know how much hard work and time Spooky puts into her fics and this is absolutely horrible that she would do this to her. She should be ashamed of herself.

[theweasleysredhair]

i’m being serious now. stop reposting my work or i will delete this blog. i dont care anymore, i have all this work saved. would take me minutes to screenshot all my nice feedback and leave tumblr. i’m here to share my work FOR FUCKING FREE, i’m not here to have it stolen.

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the wattpad user @/swagmaster51 has written a fred weasley fanfic. i got tagged in chapter 25 - and what do I find??? a good chunk of my own fucking fic breathless EDITED WITH THEIR OC’S NAME AND ‘you’ changed to ‘she/her’ AS IF THEY WROTE IT.

THIS IS NOT OKAY. THIS IS PLAGIARISM.

LINK HERE

i’m so so angry, i’m literally shaking. it’s also actually brought me to tears. this is NOT OKAY.

THIS IS MY FUCKING FIC

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you know what, i’m fucking done, man. i’m done.

[finalfrontierpioneer]

Plagiarized fic

I waited so long to make a post about this bc i was hoping the author would resolve the issue themselves, but that’s clearly not going to happen. Instead, the author has chosen to delete all my comments and not respond to me at all! I sent an abuse report to ao3 back in april, and so far nothing has happened. So I’m just tell anyone who wants to know.

First off, just wanna say this not about any of MY fics, idk the authors of the original fics and they’re fairly old, but they still don’t deserve to have their content stolen. 

So here’s the deal: raeganrolland on ao3 has plagiarized SEVERAL stories from at least 2 authors (edit: it looks like it’s actually one author! i just didn’t realize bc one of the fics was posted on livejournal under a different name!). They have repackaged the stories as stucky fics, but they are originally j2 fics. So they literally just replaced the names of the characters- and not even all the characters! 

They took an ENTIRE series (over 150,000 words!!!) This is their stucky version: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1404007 and this is the original:https://archiveofourown.org/series/58775

They also took another story (from livejournal this time)  Here’s the repackaged stucky fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30356628?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#main and here’s the original: https://users.livejournal.com/-mournthewicked/250450.html

idk if there’s even anything else to be done about this, but i’ve just gotten very frustrated and needed to share.

[theredheadinquestion]

PSA: Some apparent Johnlock/Mystrade fic stealing. Again.

Fic writers--

This tweet was in discussion in kidlit writer circles today.  Essentially, a fellow writer was alerting folks that Scribd is hosting a bunch of illegal copies of published books.

Which got me to wondering about fanfic.  So I went to the site, and seached for things like “johnlock”, “mystrade”, “mycroft Lestrade” etc etc etc. (you don’t have to create an account...just click on the three lines in the upper left corner and then click on search)  In the documents tab I found some fic that appears to be lifted from AO3. I didn’t search through everything, but I definitely saw ‘Nature and Nurture’ by  @earlgreytea68​. As Hannah’s tweet notes, users can’t report copyright infringement...it needs to come from the author.

From what I saw, it appears to be a handful of folks stealing a handful of Johnlock/Mystrade content. Definitely search for your stuff, in whatever fandom you write, and take action if needed!

[theladysexpistol]

Idk if this has happened to you, but a fanfic blog I follow just had their fic stolen just last night. The post with the stolen fic was taken down, but I still wanted to warn you. I wish there was a way to be more cautious about this though

Oh sheesh! Not that I’m aware of currently, but if you guys ever recognize something feel free to let me know so I can deal with it. That’s terrible ☹️

I mean I know there was an app going around that was just straight ripping off AO3, but just literally stealing it on tumblr? Just try writing yourself! Thanks for letting it be known, nonnie 🥰 Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays everybody!

[ak47stylegirl]

Okay, I’m not normally one to get worked up over stuff that happen online but I just found out that someone been stealing my fics and posting them to their Facebook page with out any reference or credit to me and that hurts..

I’m not going to say who this person is here, even thought I really want too. If you want to know who, private message me and I’ll tell you.

Honestly, I feel pretty hurt by this because I put my heart and soul into those fics and for someome to steal them...it hurts and it frustrating, because I would have never known if someone didn’t tell me and there is no way for me to get those stolen fics take down. I blocked the person in question that been stealing in hopes that will stop future attempts at stealing but still, I wish this never happened in the first place.

Sorry for the rant, I just needed to get this out. I never dealt with something like this before and really wish I never had to in the first place.

[swanqueen-fanfic]

Question

Why are people taking other people’s fics and putting them up on Goodreads??? They are creating accounts and posting the fics as if they were the original author. I just looked and two of my fics are up there. So confused lol.