Hey, Fic-Writing Friends

[ami_ven]

Someone just brought to my attention that there's a site called http://fanfic-journal.com/ that is stealing other people's stories and re-posting them with no author credit, claiming them as their own (usually fanfic, but a few people have reported personal journals being re-posted, too). This is, of course, completely illegal, but the person

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[ostarella]

Contact LJ and the service provider for that website.

[jennickels]

I saw that yesterday when it popped up on my flist (from the ficrants community). I checked and my last fanfic was there.

Personally, I'm not concerned for my 1 fic since I have a mega header on every story that has the title, my name (screen name and real name), etc. It's already public on my livejournal and the site links to it. So, eh.

I can see how other people would be pissed though, especially the people that are having non-stories posted because they tagged them with a fanfic tag. Maybe if more of my stuff was on the site I'd complain, but I'm not going to bother.

For now.

[sharp2799]

Holy crap. How do we have to search? By title??

[jennickels]

I just searched for my user name.

[metapodik]

"with no author credit, claiming them as their own" -- thats not true. I have links on original posts with author.

[ami_ven]

IF the original post by the original author included a linked username in the header, you did copy-and-paste the entire thing, but many of your reposts do not mention the author anywhere, tacitly implying that you are claiming authorship by posting the work, not a link to the author's own post.

[metapodik]

It was a technical problem, because of incorrectly processing not standard html tag lj user="". People which use clear text with bold, was not removed. Even this, where was link on original post. When you can see original author.

[ami_ven]

It was not a technical problem. My entries didn't use html link for the author, just plain text, which I did not include in all of my headers, since I posted them to MY OWN journal.

If you are too lazy to properly cite authors and link back to the original post, why do you take the time to make a journal of copied stories? Do you enjoy 'getting one over' on unsuspecting authors? Do you like people thinking you wrote these stories yourself? Do you just want to collect complaints and see how many people you can offend?

Seriously, get a life.