On June 18, 2012, redcirce reported that two pieces of Doctor Who fanart had been traced and put up for sale on Etsy. This piece by viria13 on deviantArt seems to have been turned into this piece on Etsy. And this piece by chaaar appears to have been repurposed as this piece on Etsy. Both pieces on Etsy are no longer available ( Read more... )

On April 30, 2012, reni_m reported that kristianabel22 had plagiarized a piece of fanart by adavidoff1 in the Merlin fandom. (See original report for screencaps and links.) In addition, the report includes screencaps of art based on another fan's photographs, as well as art based on others' manips. (Please be aware that the manips are NSFW and contain nudity ( Read more... )

kristianabel22 has flagrantly used others fanart without permission, without crediting the original artist, and attempting to pass it off as his own in the following instances.

On April 25, 2012, the user in question, kristianabel22, posted his art across Merlin fandom. The art was crossposted at many of the fandom’s communities and newsletters including merlinxarthur, shapingdestiny, and drawmelot. Here is ( Read more... )

On April 30, writinginct reported that three of her stories had been plagiarized by 19811945. (See the original report.) The stories had been removed by the time writinginct went to look at their fanfiction.net account, but there were ten other fics listed. Of those, all but two were copied and pasted from other authors. (Screencaps are here.)

( Read more... )

On March 17, 2012, sara_holmes reported that one of her stories, Get Some, had been translated into Italian without permission or credit. Screencaps can be found in the original report, and confirmation has been made that the translation is word for word, with only the story title and chapter titles being different. Trapis also translated at least three other ( Read more... )

writerdragonfly and illusoryflight reported that HPWriter2011 had plagiarized six stories from six different authors. illusoryflight's report, here, contained screencaps, which clearly indicated that HPWriter2011 had copy-pasted the six stories. That report contained HPWriter2011's initial response to the accusation: "k, yes i did copy some stories! however heart of a dragon is not a story ( Read more... )

On January 5, 2012, easilyglorious reported that emmalovesmuse had plagiarized an original story. The report, with screencaps, is here. The plagiarized story appears to be a word for word copy of the original with only the names changed.

I contacted the author of the original story but have not yet heard back. I also contacted emmalovesmuse, and received the following reply ( Read more... )

On October 5, 2011, borderline_mary reported that Fushigi No Kaosu had plagiarized some of her poetry in the Yu Yu Hakusho fandom. We had determined Fushigi No Kaosu to have plagiarized borderline_mary's poetry in the past.

In this case, Fushigi No Kaosu posted several poems on menewsha.com. All of those poems seem to have been copied from others' work.

( Screencaps and Links )

Several years ago I posted to this community concerning plagiarism of my poetry by someone using the name fushigi no kaosu.  This was my original post and this was the ruling made at the time.

It appears the same user re-posted some of the same poetry a while later, on a site called menewsha.com; it can be found here.  In addition, it appears that ( Read more... )

On September 4, 2011, minni reported that Guardian of the crystal had plagiarized Eloisa James' book, A Kiss at Midnight. Other than changing the names of the characters, Guardian of the crystal's version of "A Kiss at Midnight" is a word-for-word reproduction of James' book.

( Screencaps )