Plagiarism crossing Newsies and Death Note fandoms

Sep 19, 2012 22:05


It appears that a Fanfiction.net user named dexy's midnight runner has plagiarized a story written as a collaboration of three people that was posted under the username sloanne in August 2003. Those authors are also known by the usernames Funkiechick and studentnumber24601, according to the profile for the sloanne account.

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fandom: death note, 2012, site: fanfiction.net

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trulyslytherin September 29 2012, 10:47:45 UTC
Hi forcestrong, I'll be the mod on this case.

Thank you for the screencaps, they will be useful as dexy's midnight runner has deleted the story.

I hope to be able to sort this out as soon as possible.

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schizophrenic0 September 29 2012, 17:16:39 UTC
Just FYI, studentnumber24601 told me she doesn't often check her FF.Net account anymore, so if you are hoping to contact her you may have better luck through The Refuge (it's a Newsies fanfiction site that she moderates).

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amorettea September 29 2012, 16:57:05 UTC
Adding song lyrics at the beginning of the chapter is also plagiarism and banned by FFN. So she is going for the trifecta with her thefts.

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schizophrenic0 September 29 2012, 17:11:00 UTC
Thanks for posting this! I did manage to contact studentnumber24601 about this. I don't know if she's informed her co-author.

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grydo2life September 29 2012, 21:53:06 UTC
This just makes me mad. "Everything You've Done Wrong" has been one of my favorite fics for years. I've reread it so many times since it was first posted... So glad someone caught this and reported it.

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