FMA Yuri Plagiarism

Mar 04, 2008 13:53

I was directed here by a number of people, following the discovery that one of my fics has been plagiarized. The fic was originally posted in 2006 on Livejournal:

To Bring a Bitch to Heel

And has been reproduced, sans credit, here:

On FF.net

Along With Screencaps )

fandom: full metal alchemist, 2008, mod: spiralleds, medium: fanfiction

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spiralleds March 5 2008, 17:36:53 UTC
It looks like the only fic where the original author is identified is your A Woman of That Persuasion, although according to FFN rules, I don't think they allow the posting of other's stories, even if you do give credit.

I'll send Paladinstriker an email and see what kind of response I can get.

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theladyfeylene March 5 2008, 18:35:25 UTC
Since submitting my post here, I've contacted all the authors of the stories listed on their profile, and all three of us have contacted the user. It's been 48 hours since my first attempt to contact them, and still no response. Thank you for this, very much. Maybe someone who isn't one of the authors that were ripped off will have better luck.

We've also filed abuse reports, both for explicit content and for uploading stories that belonged to another author.

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spiralleds March 5 2008, 18:44:07 UTC
If I don't hear back from Paladinstriker, the next step will be that I'll also file reports with FFN. Just to warn you, for reasons I that have not been explained, FFN's abuse/plagiarism folks have not been terribly responsive to requests for the last few months.

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theladyfeylene March 5 2008, 18:46:05 UTC
I'm not surprised. I've heard nothing but complaints about ff.net and how they do nothing to take care of plagiarism. We've all filed ours sometime in the last 48 hours, but nothing's been done.

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spiralleds March 7 2008, 18:34:29 UTC
Could you provide a list of the original authors and their stories? If you have links to the original stories, that would be great as well. I'll include that in the summary.

Thank you.

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