Unacceptable! Someone is re-posting our fic and other posts without permission!

[badly_knitted]

Re-posted from tardisjournal

Somebody with this website is repostings several authors/fanartists fics on there without listing the name of the authors/fanartists on there and apparently in most cases, without permission. I've seen a good number of stories/fanart I'm familar with on the site (all of them most likely swiped from LJ and LJ comms as several LJ

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[ms_bekahrose]

I went and read the comments on the "complaints" section and left this lovely little response of my own...
You mention 'Creative Common License' in one of your replies to a person on the complaints page, however, CCL is for the AUTHOR, not someone who wants to repost without the author's permission. Even with links to the original author.

"A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created."

Emphasis is mine.

You have no right to be posting people's work on this "archive" without contacting each author individually and asking them for permission.

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They are citing a law that is there for the use of Authors as their reasoning behind the reposting of other people's fic, further proof that they haven't don't their research properly.

I went through and couldn't spot anything of mine, but in saying that, I have a LOT of Merlin stuff these days, and I don't tag things as simply "fanfic" or "fanfiction"... I guess that is one positive to my completely mental tagging system. ;)

[badly_knitted]

Thanks for that! Now I understand things better myself and it's clear this person doesn't know what they're talking about.

I don't tag anything on my journal as fanfic, I simply use 'fic', which is why my entries are getting taking from a community and not from my journal. Except for the warning post I made which I DELIBERATELY tagged with fanfic, just to see. I believe they don't dare automatically take things labelled fic because they could take original fiction and then they most definitely WOULD be doing something illegal.