Plagiarism of a Bandom fic
This morning I was talking with the author of You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison, dancinbutterfly, who was upset because she found that 
Echoooooo and
edlundis had plagiarized her fic to turn it into a Supernatural fanfic.
The stolen story is showing as a WIP, whereas the original one is finished, and was finished in Feb 2010 (with later sequels. dancinbutterfly has post about her writing process here, here and under this tag.
The author also found places of find/replace fail, which she left in a comment to the AO3 post. From dancinbutterfly's comment:
And now, PLACES WHERE YOU FAILED TO FIND+REPLACE PROPERLY!
>>I heard he fucking mauled a guy;”
And then you have it be Becky. Wrong gender. Pay attention if you're going to screw with my work.
>>Church of sin and Addiction.
Forgot to capitalized Sin when you changed it from Hot Addiction to sin and addiction. *clicks tongue*
>>Cas’s pain is a sacrifice to the Cobra
Cobra not satan. at least change it to the serpent. Come on ladies. If you're going to TEAM UP to steal my story, the least you can do is get creative with your Find+Replace.
>>Until then, Lucifer teases the younger man with crumbs of affection and murmurs about the venom of the Cobra’s vengeance.
Cobra instead of Satan reference again
>>Sam bumps him in the arm with his shoulder. “You miss Peppers already and you know it.” He tries for joking but it comes out a little cracked.
You didnt even change the name of the dog? COME ON! So lazy. Thats Frank Iero's dogs name IN REAL LIFE! Do your research before a pulling a job. Honestly have you never seen a heist movie?
>>Michael shrugs. He’s still got about 15 minutes left on his break but he’s got paperwork to fill out, incident reports about Gutierrez. He doesn’t have time to work this out properly. “Maybe.”
It was Jake Tralley and then you forgot to Find+Replace Gutierrez, who is Chris Gutierrez btw as in HeyChris from the Fall Out Boy canon. Consistency! It's like you broke into a jewelry story and left a trail of precious stones in your wake!
>>Michael doesn’t know if Tralley is Catholic or not but it doesn’t matter to Bobby. Besides, it won’t be needed. If Dean had wanted Gutierrez to die, he’d be dead. That’s all there is to it.
HeyChris Gutierrez again. It's like you're not even TRYING!
>>He spots him across the room, his hand on Cas’ wrist, pulling him sharply away from one of the taller Cobras.
Cobras again. Can't you do better? At least come up with some term for the satanists like, idk, satanists?
>>Lucifer’s drowsy voice lilts with that special Cobra crazy
You forgot to change the Cobra Starship Cobra back to a version of the devil again.
>>So Michael hadn’t been able to stop Uriel. The guy was small, but a fucking speed freak is a dangerous thing, dangerous like people think Way is, only for real.
Again, you forgot to change the name from Way(Gerard) to Uriel.
>>Shurley scares Castiel. Way scares everyone, but Castiel’s never gotten over the fear of the unpredictable his father instilled in him as a kid.
Way is Gerard Way. You forgot to change it. Again.
Sloppy Sloppy. If you're going to steal, at least steal WELL. The Winchesters, Bela, Bobby, Crowley and Lucifer would all be DEEPLY disappointed at your huge failure at this attempt at theft. The sheer ineptitutde and incompetence you showed in stealing my hard work is only less insulting than the plagerism but only by degrees.
I haven't taken screen caps of the fics in question, since there's over 18K or plagiarized fic, and over 50K of the original fic, but I did download PDF copies of both from AO3, I can upload them when I get home tonight, if needed, but here are links, for now. Original and Plagiarized
The fic in question is the only fic
Echoooooo has on AO3.
edlundis has two others (Feather and Chaos Awaiting), that a quick google search shows as being identical to two fics written by
sexymish (Feather and Blood of Fire). I haven't confirmed yet if these are also plagiarized or if
edlundis is also
sexymish, but I'm sending a message on ff.net now.
A number of abuse reports from various people have already been submitted to AO3 to inform them of the violation of their TOS
Echoooooo and
edlundis had plagiarized her fic to turn it into a Supernatural fanfic.
The stolen story is showing as a WIP, whereas the original one is finished, and was finished in Feb 2010 (with later sequels. dancinbutterfly has post about her writing process here, here and under this tag.
The author also found places of find/replace fail, which she left in a comment to the AO3 post. From dancinbutterfly's comment:
And now, PLACES WHERE YOU FAILED TO FIND+REPLACE PROPERLY!
>>I heard he fucking mauled a guy;”
And then you have it be Becky. Wrong gender. Pay attention if you're going to screw with my work.
>>Church of sin and Addiction.
Forgot to capitalized Sin when you changed it from Hot Addiction to sin and addiction. *clicks tongue*
>>Cas’s pain is a sacrifice to the Cobra
Cobra not satan. at least change it to the serpent. Come on ladies. If you're going to TEAM UP to steal my story, the least you can do is get creative with your Find+Replace.
>>Until then, Lucifer teases the younger man with crumbs of affection and murmurs about the venom of the Cobra’s vengeance.
Cobra instead of Satan reference again
>>Sam bumps him in the arm with his shoulder. “You miss Peppers already and you know it.” He tries for joking but it comes out a little cracked.
You didnt even change the name of the dog? COME ON! So lazy. Thats Frank Iero's dogs name IN REAL LIFE! Do your research before a pulling a job. Honestly have you never seen a heist movie?
>>Michael shrugs. He’s still got about 15 minutes left on his break but he’s got paperwork to fill out, incident reports about Gutierrez. He doesn’t have time to work this out properly. “Maybe.”
It was Jake Tralley and then you forgot to Find+Replace Gutierrez, who is Chris Gutierrez btw as in HeyChris from the Fall Out Boy canon. Consistency! It's like you broke into a jewelry story and left a trail of precious stones in your wake!
>>Michael doesn’t know if Tralley is Catholic or not but it doesn’t matter to Bobby. Besides, it won’t be needed. If Dean had wanted Gutierrez to die, he’d be dead. That’s all there is to it.
HeyChris Gutierrez again. It's like you're not even TRYING!
>>He spots him across the room, his hand on Cas’ wrist, pulling him sharply away from one of the taller Cobras.
Cobras again. Can't you do better? At least come up with some term for the satanists like, idk, satanists?
>>Lucifer’s drowsy voice lilts with that special Cobra crazy
You forgot to change the Cobra Starship Cobra back to a version of the devil again.
>>So Michael hadn’t been able to stop Uriel. The guy was small, but a fucking speed freak is a dangerous thing, dangerous like people think Way is, only for real.
Again, you forgot to change the name from Way(Gerard) to Uriel.
>>Shurley scares Castiel. Way scares everyone, but Castiel’s never gotten over the fear of the unpredictable his father instilled in him as a kid.
Way is Gerard Way. You forgot to change it. Again.
Sloppy Sloppy. If you're going to steal, at least steal WELL. The Winchesters, Bela, Bobby, Crowley and Lucifer would all be DEEPLY disappointed at your huge failure at this attempt at theft. The sheer ineptitutde and incompetence you showed in stealing my hard work is only less insulting than the plagerism but only by degrees.
I haven't taken screen caps of the fics in question, since there's over 18K or plagiarized fic, and over 50K of the original fic, but I did download PDF copies of both from AO3, I can upload them when I get home tonight, if needed, but here are links, for now. Original and Plagiarized
The fic in question is the only fic
Echoooooo has on AO3.
edlundis has two others (Feather and Chaos Awaiting), that a quick google search shows as being identical to two fics written by
sexymish (Feather and Blood of Fire). I haven't confirmed yet if these are also plagiarized or if
edlundis is also
sexymish, but I'm sending a message on ff.net now.
A number of abuse reports from various people have already been submitted to AO3 to inform them of the violation of their TOS