On December 28th, silenttaiyoukai reported that a story of theirs had been plagiarised on fanfiction.net. The story in question, The End, was reposted word-for-word by Darknight847. The story has since been deleted, but you can see caps of it here, here and here.

Darknight847 has not responded despite several attempts to contact him, but claimed in a review to ( Read more... )

On June 6th, 2010 and July 13th 2010, silenceberry  reported two separate instances of plagiarism on Jendra's works. Both of these stories involved the Harry Potter fandom and, at that time, both fics were exclusively posted at Jendra's Yahoo fanfiction group. Note: these were originally assigned to another mod, autobadgirl, but due to real-life, they were ( Read more... )

On December 24th, 2010,izzanami  submitted a report involving the InuYasha fandom. The case stated that Afri_Angel's fic "I want to break free" was a plagiarized version of her story. The report can be found here.

The original work, also titled I Want to Break Free, was published by Izzanami at fanfiction.net on March 1, 2009. Screen-caps prove that ( Read more... )

On 25 December 2010, gw_shenlong reported that xTrunksloverx3 had plagiarized five stories: Kindred Spirits, The Santa Clause, Play With Me, Caught in the Act, and Once So Blue.

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On November 15th, 2010, christinex1001 (ChristineX on fanfiction.net)reported a case of plagiarism involving her LOTR story Heart's Blood she originally posted on fanfiction.net by user Senicalledbysongbirds with a story titled Half-Blood on Quizilla.com. Original report hereI have never received a response from Senicalledbysongbirds, although I sent a number ( Read more... )

On August 6th, 2010, mistyfur reported a case of plagiarism involving Lady Treason's Heir of Corvus series posted on FFN.net by Asherz13. Original report post hereI tried a number of times to contact but was unable to get a response from Asherz13. A number of reviews were left on that story alerting Asherz13 that the story had been reported and the story ( Read more... )

First, I want to start off and say that this post is a little unusual. At the end of year, our head moderator goes back and tidies up any open cases, along with tagging, comparing, and basically checking all our posts thoroughly. (Thanks spiralleds  - you're awesome!)

Anyway, as can happen in many other on-line activities, sometimes real life gets in the way ( Read more... )

In the course of investigating a complete separate case of repeat plagiarism involving a different person, it was inadvertantly found that portions of a story posted by Raych to her page on FF.net, contained the unaltered, uncredited, shooting script from the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode Surprise written by Marti Noxin. I contacted Raych ( Read more... )

On December 7th, we received a report of possible plagiarism on fanfiction.net, regarding someone posting under the name of 1st_Duke_of_Derrignton possibly plagiarizing three stories by three separate authors. The original report can be viewed here.

Although the reported person had removed the stories by the time we received the report, hamrensel had ( Read more... )

On December 23rd, a reader at FF.net alerted me to the fact that someone had re-posted one of my stories as their own. The name of my fic that was plagiarized is "The End", and the original can be found here: www.fanfiction.net/s/5785251/1/The_End. As you can see, it was originally posted to FF.net on March 1st, 2010.

Darknight847 changed the name ( Read more... )