The original case report is here.

I cross-checked the original by checking dates on the reviews, which conclusively establishes that the original fic was posted as far back as 2006. The date on the tumblr screencap shows that it was posted approximately 2 weeks prior to today's date ( Read more... )

The original report is hereOwing to the sensitiveness of having a major former "BNF" in the Harry Potter fandom not only being plagiarized, but having their username appropriated by someone else, I have allowed a much longer grace period for a reply to my PM, sent on 6 June 2013. I then sent another one on 15 June 2013. There has been no reply to ( Read more... )

The original report is hereTo begin with, I began verifying the plagiarism allegations and in the process decided that "Chipmunk on the Roof" was properly attributed/credited, so although it probably constitutes copyright infringement, fan fiction in general constitutes such as fan fiction is creating derivative works of original work without ( Read more... )

The original report is here.

While I had not completed my investigation, I am inclined to believe that, based on the information provided, that even if the appropriation of wording and paragraphing is mostly coincidental, the flavor of the paragraphing suggests that at least in each case reported, the overall arc of the orignal fic was being ( Read more... )

The orignal report is here.I took some screencaps and, while by no means complete, my comparison of the fanfics involved, like the original author's conclusion, leads me to believe that the plagiarism was deliberate, with attempts to hide the fact that whole sentences were in fact used in the process ( Read more... )

On 19 May, surreysmum reported that her story "Breath of Life" (published in April 2008), which had previously been plagiarised by yayuki, had now shown up in multiple versions on AO3 by a writer called Wisdomofsnow. Her report is here.

I took this case because I had moderated the previous case. A bit of background about that case: I tried to contact yayuki while ( Read more... )

The initial report is here. After a grace period of roughly 48 to 72 hours, I have received no reply from GeneMathers's email as recorded on AO3. Additionally, in that time, GeneMathers's stories have been deleted and their profile, erased. AO3 staff were acting on the plagiarism reports, but GeneMathers had begun already deleting the fics and ( Read more... )

The original report is hereOwing to some RL issues I didn't get to message the author right away, but it really was a slam-dunk, as judged from the exact word for word similarities of the text from the screenshots and the fic ( Read more... )

On 7 April 2013, roguemudblood reported that mglrahul had plagiarized a Witch Child story from OpiumPoppy, "Eyes like a Wolf". That report is here. roguemudblood also reported the case to TaPiRI attempted to contact mglrahul, but to date there has been no response. As the screencaps provided and the TaPiR investigation both confirm the plagiarism (note that the copying is ( Read more... )

On 1/17/2013, surreysmum reported that her story "Breath of Life" (Lord of the Rings fandom) had been plagiarised on two Starsky & Hutch communities by yayuki. The mods of the two communities were contacted and the story was removed. However, screencaps were provided in the original report and it was obvious that the story posted was an almost exact copy of surreysmum's ( Read more... )