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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[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.

[metapodik]

"My entries didn't use html link for the author, just plain text"

No, they use, i checked it especially. Its not I remove or delete something. Its automated script work. I just delete weird entries sometimes, thats all. I am not read this fanfics, not manually copy it and etc etc.

[ami_ven]

I do not use html for the author credit. There is no link after 'author' in my headers. Do not copy ANYTHING from my journal, or marked in any way with my user name ever again, and immediately delete any so marked that you have already copied.

[metapodik]

OK