Fanfic Theft ... Signal Boost.
Some of you have probably heard about this, but, basically, someone has been lifting fanfiction stories whole and reprinting them without permission on their blog (at http://www.donotlink.com/framed?561309 ... it's on a "Do Not Link" site in order to circumvent ad revenues being sent to them via the Wordpress.org platform which hosts them.) I've recognized many names on the roles, although there are an awful lot of unaccredited stories as well. The stories are word-for-word. It's just that this person is sucking off readership traffic, collecting ad revenues, and they have no permission to reprint the works.
ETA: Because there's some misunderstanding about this, let me spell it out clearly: Thief's using a Wordpress platform which sells ads and pays per hit. She's not recommending fanfics for the sake of fandom. She's making money off us.
This person very kindly drew my attention to one of my works being stolen, and explained things very carefully here:
http://ladydragon76.livejournal.com/225544.html
Basically, if you want to find out if a story of yours was stolen, but don't want to scroll through thousands of stolen entries go to this page:
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?561309
On the right side you will see a white box with "Search" to the right of it. Type in your LJ username (or your community's name) and hit enter. It works the same as the original site but doesn't allow hits or revenue to accumulate.
Ladydragon76 spells out what to do if you find any of your works on their site. Just read her entry.
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ETA: Because there's some misunderstanding about this, let me spell it out clearly: Thief's using a Wordpress platform which sells ads and pays per hit. She's not recommending fanfics for the sake of fandom. She's making money off us.
This person very kindly drew my attention to one of my works being stolen, and explained things very carefully here:
http://ladydragon76.livejournal.com/225544.html
Basically, if you want to find out if a story of yours was stolen, but don't want to scroll through thousands of stolen entries go to this page:
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?561309
On the right side you will see a white box with "Search" to the right of it. Type in your LJ username (or your community's name) and hit enter. It works the same as the original site but doesn't allow hits or revenue to accumulate.
Ladydragon76 spells out what to do if you find any of your works on their site. Just read her entry.
Because of Livejournal's data-sharing policy with Facebook and Twitter, comments will not be logged here. If you would like to respond to this post, please click through: http://7veils.dreamwidth.org/367515.html.