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Jul. 20th, 2013 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelagiaWell. It took nine years, but I've finally been plagiarized!
A kind fellow fandomer alerted me to the plagiarism, and there is absolutely no question that it's my fic with different names slotted in, because the "author" barely bothered to change anything else at all. And apparently he/she/it has done this to several other authors as well.
Right now I'm vacillating wildly between DENOUNCE! DENOUNCE! PUBLIC SHAMING! and privately contacting the person to give them a chance to just take it down. But also one of the other affected authors is going the public denouncing route, so perhaps that will take care of it all at once. Hrm.
Thoughts?
ETA: About ten minutes after posting the above, the tumblr was deactivated. And then she apparently set up a new one with a slightly different username. I'm just laughing now. I mean, it still sucks and she still obviously hasn't learned a thing from this, but... god, people are so silly sometimes.
ETA 2: And now the second tumblr has mysteriously vanished as well! I'm excited to see where she pops up next. Stay tuned for the next installment of Assholes on the Internet, folks!
A kind fellow fandomer alerted me to the plagiarism, and there is absolutely no question that it's my fic with different names slotted in, because the "author" barely bothered to change anything else at all. And apparently he/she/it has done this to several other authors as well.
Right now I'm vacillating wildly between DENOUNCE! DENOUNCE! PUBLIC SHAMING! and privately contacting the person to give them a chance to just take it down. But also one of the other affected authors is going the public denouncing route, so perhaps that will take care of it all at once. Hrm.
Thoughts?
ETA: About ten minutes after posting the above, the tumblr was deactivated. And then she apparently set up a new one with a slightly different username. I'm just laughing now. I mean, it still sucks and she still obviously hasn't learned a thing from this, but... god, people are so silly sometimes.
ETA 2: And now the second tumblr has mysteriously vanished as well! I'm excited to see where she pops up next. Stay tuned for the next installment of Assholes on the Internet, folks!
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on 2013-07-20 11:46 pm (UTC)What a jerk!
Can you make a complaint to Tumblr?
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on 2013-07-20 11:57 pm (UTC)She made a new tumblr but took down the fic, so there's nothing to complain about currently. Best I can do is screencap her fic, which I had open in another tab before she shut it down, and save it just in case.
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on 2013-07-21 02:06 pm (UTC)If she has any fic online at all, you might want to post her name — not to get the whole tag-team harpy crowd after her. Who does that work on after the age of 15? Anyway, it just serves the whole attention-seeking nonsense which probably motivates her. I suggest doing it because the rest of her stuff might be unauthorized and attributable to someone else as well. This way, people can scope it out and see if it belongs to them or someone they know, and get her to take it down. You would think someone who gets a reputation as a plagiarist wouldn't leave anything up, but obviously, they aren't doing it for the sake of showcasing their bright wits.
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on 2013-07-21 08:02 pm (UTC)Good point about her remaining fics. I'm thinking about it, and what's the best way to go about doing that. :/