I has an angry

[adelagia]

Well. 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!

Comments

[idreamofdraco.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry that happened, but good thing it was taken down! I say if you get plagiarized again, definitely publicly shame the plagiarist. Even if he/she doesn't feel shame, you can at least warn others. Hopefully it doesn't happen again though! :/

[adelagia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've screencapped what she stole from me and am keeping track of her in the event that I do need to do something. Hopefully having several of us keeping a close eye on her will prevent any future theft, but somehow I doubt it!