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Well once I was on this forum i frequent when some one decided to start a thread about how some one had stolen their fanfic to pass off as there own but I some how managed to to spontaneously die the instant the idea that some one was sad enough to rip off a fanfic dawned on me. Which is pretty weird since that sort of horror always kills. | |
1) I understand what you're saying. It's kind of sad but maybe that person thinks that the story is so awesome they're hoping to get published. Who knows. People are weird at times. Bizarre in others. 2) I had someone steal my math homework, erase my name and try to turn it in. Unfortunately for them I have very neat handwriting and they had very messy handwriting. This was in primary school. | |
I've had a group assignment at university that turned into a bit of a rush job. We compiled each person's part and handed it in. I was the only one to show up at the meeting where the grade would be handed out, and when the teacher started speaking I knew why: one of my groupmates had taken it upon himself to translate a large part of a book we used as a source and plagiarise entire pages of it. Holy, fucking, shit. The penalty for that is expelling from the study for at least a year and having all results from said year invalidated, and there's rumours universities circulate names of plagiarists so your chances are drastically reduced. And it's a group assignment, so if he says everybody's responsible, he can, and it very much remains to be seen if I can fight that. Fortunately for me the teacher was very decent about it. He found my part of the assignment much better than theirs, adequate versus atrociously bad for the other parts, and had been doing some maths and saw that I needed a much lower grade to pass the subject than my groupmates did, and he had given it exactly that grade so I succeeded and they failed. It's that I don't have a backyard, or there'd still be a statue of that teacher in it. ;-) | |
I've never had my work stolen but this is exactly what makes me so paranoid about posting my original fiction online. I was once trolled hardcore in 4th Grade when my friend whoose group was scheduled to present their project first told me they had stolen our idea. It turned outto be BS but I totally took the bait. Also out of curiosity what fictional franchise is your fanfic based on? | |
I was always the kid in high school that everyone thought was a super genius (ok, I'm smart, but not like, honor student smart) so I let people copy my homework a lot. Why? Because when it came time to explain their work, I was the only one who could. Also, tests are like, 90% of your grade in high school, and the people that copied never studied and fucked up their tests anyways. Gotta love the idiots..... As for your dilemma....I don't know what fanfic it is so I don't want to generalize, but a lot of fanfic writers/readers are.....weirdly obsessive? Especially when it comes to their non-canon romances (not saying you are or that's a bad thing) but its something that you just have to take into account. There are trolls everywhere. | |
Wait... that's an exact word-for-word copy of a thread I made a month ago! Just kidding. It would be funny though. | |
Sucks bro. idk what else to say. if you can prove yours came first maybe the website will take the ever down.but seeing as it isnt copyrighted, sucks bro | |
I... Um... Wat? Maybe they just thought it was good, wanted the credit, and figured you didn't have copyright protection? | |
Happened to me as well a long time ago. It was on an mmo forum I visited (and also posted fanfiction). I pm'ed the mods and the topic with the copied work got locked. I also pm'ed the person that did it more or less asking why , never got a reply. Still a bit afraid will will copy my work(since i have been posting some non fanfiction online as well). | |
Aren't fanfictions all covered under some kind of blanket copyright for all creative works? You should be able to issue a takedown request.
Wow, that's...extremely reasonable and pretty awesome. | |
Harry Potter. It's a retelling of the books from the POV of three characters who are just regular Hogwarts students who have no interaction with Harry at all.
I used to charge people £30 per essay to write an essay for them in their own style. Never got caught, made a nice little profit off the people dumb enough to let me do it, and they got terrible grades in the exams because they didn't know the subjects. Unethical? Totally. Worth it? You betcha. And it's Harry Potter fanfic. People be crazy 'bout their HP. The extra weirdness is that it's not like my fic is well known or even well read. It has like 200 reads. Bizarrity. As for everyone saying to report it/ake it down, I have sent this person a polite message asking them what they're doing, and there is a report function on the site, so if I have to get nasty. I'm hoping once they know they've been cuaght out they'll just take it down. | |
1. You must be an incredible writer for someone to want to copy it word for word. I feel sorry for you, but I do not know how one would combat that scenario. 2. I've had my partner in my grade 11 Physical Geography class split from me because he wanted to work with his friend who had been away for several days during the beginning of the project, and he took all of my work. 3 days of work down the drain and I had to make a completely new topic. | |
That blows, dude. I write fanfiction too, and would hate to have my stuff stolen. I guess raise a ruckus and out the guy. Show people the original drafts? Right now, his/her reputation is more at stake than yours. | |
Link please! It will either be terrible and I can make fun of you for it (probable) or it will actually be good and I will enjoy the read. Win - win situation. | |
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7604779/1/Hogwarts_Retold Take it away. Spread the word, read, review, say what you will. | |
Now that's just sad. Stealing somebody's fanfiction... Not only are you stealing somebody's else's work, it's somebody else's work that's based off of SOMEBODY ELSE's work. I've never really been a fan of fanfiction OP. Why don't you just try and make your own characters? Your own settings? | |
Prove it with dates! Dates!! | |
Because they want to be known for something, and if they like something or see it gets views they want a piece of that. I think anyway I'm not really sure, I'm paranoid as it is on my own stuff getting stolen despite having it copywritten. | |
That's actually not so strange as it sounds. Someone that is deliberately out to pass off someone else's work as their own, will, if they have any sense at all choose something that is as obscure as possible. After all, if what you've stolen is well-known, or popular, the chances of someone (other than the person who created it, obviously) noticing that you've stolen it is much higher than if it's some obscure work nobody has ever really seen. | |
I'd like to say that this is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard, I can understand somebody stealing characters, story elements, plotpoints, but not the whole story, and fanfiction of all things! Just to clarify, I have read great fanfiction in the past (recently more about people who want to change ME3's ending which qualifies) but fanfiction doesn't seem to be something that readers would get so wrapped up in that they want to steal it, I guess they thought the story was really well written as well as obscure enough to pass off as their own. | |
I do. I'm writing two novels and a books series of short novellas in the style of a TV show. I'm about 60,000 words into one, 30,000 words into the other, and three 'episodes' into the book series (45,000 words) I've been writing original fiction since I was 12, I've had a bit of experience at it by now. Writing fanfiction is an easy way to write character pieces. The characters I've made up are entirely original, not featured in canon at all, so the only thing I'm using is the setting. It makes writing a lot easier because you can focus on your dialogue and plot instead of having to worry about world building. | |
That kind of happened to me once. I had a WoWfic posted on a website run by a WoW parodist (she liked my writing) and then some asshat came and took the story and rewrote it and got her to post it on the same page. I wouldn't have been as pissed as I was but it was bad. Like really bad. Like everything was wrong bad. The grammar was fucked, the prose was shit, he didn't understand any of the terminology (fucking Lineage players) and he even had hints of raping the main character. What is this I don't even cannot begin to describe it. The fail was of factorial scale. | |
So he stole your work, and then rewrote it to imply rape? How does one even do that? Did the main character have sex in your story and he edited out the consent? I think if he changed it enough to include a felony then it's probably a new enough piece. Unless you want to claim the rape, you sort of have to let him have it. | |
This is why I always keep my fan-fiction in my head, no one can steal it and it gets better every time I read it.
If you stored it online and it's good enough of-course someone is going to try to steal it. Just take it as a complement. | |
Some imposter stole my TRUE and ORIGINAL character Sonichu once. Gave me tons of stress. | |
No, it was the bullshit "rape as drama" trope. And no, I wrote it as a pure action piece. The parallels were clear. The stories were on the same fucking page, hence why I said he stole it. | |
that's not fanfiction, is it? That's just imagination. Nothing wrong with imagination, but I wouldn't call the epic dream I had last night a novel. | |
Know I had an idea for an open world survival horror game. I won't give to many details away, my friends were impressed. Now I was really pissed off when my friend said that I stole it from him. Just showed my other friends the drawings and the characters, he said sorry and all was forgiven. Always pissed off when a lie is pointless like that. Gets under my skin when people lie and have no real evidence to back it up. After all, the main character's name was Richard Dory. I remember describing him as sort of a reclusive yuppie that semi loves his family. Dumbass friend tells my other friends that the main character in his version was Ritchie Cory. Everything else was stolen except the name. Not even enough to sound good, I like Richard better. | |
Well I do try to form it into a narrative sometimes and fan-fiction is really just from your imagination. But tell me about this "Epic" dream you had. I promise I won't try to steal it. | |
Oh cool. Good for you (not sarcastic). It's just that the internet is full to the brim of thoughtless erotic fanfiction. Good to see someone doing original work. | |
Yeah, that's why I really support fanfiction, even though I personally only participate in it occasionally. I think it's a great way to practice writing without, like you said, having to go through all the trouble of creating your own worlds. Also, I have lots of ideas that I don't write about simply because I feel like I would need more practice to get it right, and in that since I think fanfiction is a great way to improve while maintaining the integrity of your own ideas. Also, roleplaying. | |
I hear it makes for a great animated series however. | |
I remember this one girl I know made a sprite-based webcomic that kept running into cases of copycats. First, someone stole the comic and started posting it as their own work on DeviantART (and I believe this was back when using sprites got you banned or something). Then, someone copied the whole concept of the comic and copied a lot of the dialogue nearly word-for-word, just using a different main character. Then, someone else brought up making a comic with the exact same concept again. Can't remember if he actually went ahead with it or not. People have often attacked me for the immature actions of another, just because they like him. They also blame me for him being banned, along well as their friends, whom I never even reported. | |
Being the snoopy shit that I am I found the wattpad account in question and I noticed the writer has several stories. Makes me wonder if they've stolen all that work too. And I noticed that you commented to them about it. I wonder what they'll do once they find out. As a writer myself I've often been afraid of this happening to me, though I only write original fiction (not knocking you for writing fan fiction OP, at one time I did too). Simply because...what the fuck do you do at that point you know? I mean it's not like you can prove it, especially in an unpublished work. Back when I still wrote fan fiction I actually did find some quotes of my lying stuff around the internet. I was amazed. I don't think anyone had blatantly ripped me off, they didn't necessarily give me credit, but they weren't claiming it as their own, but if they have they haven't gotten famous for my work. I remember one person had actually taken a quote from a Yu Yu Hakusho highschool fanfic I did (yes I'm incredibly original, I know) about how country music can be very depressing and put it up on their myspace. | |
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I wish I was kidding.
So I was trying to get a quick link to my fanfiction to send to a friend who wanted to read it, hopped onto google and found that someone has copied the first chapter of the fiction word for word and was passing it off as their own.
Why would someone do this? I can understand stealing an original story, if you think the idea is good. I can understand pirating, even if I don't approve, and I can understand trying to make easy money off someone else's work, but this is just someone copying my work onto their Wattpad account.
So I ask you. First, do you understand this story? And second, what completely nonsensical things have people ever done to you?
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The happy conclusion. Yeah, s/he took it down. So all good now.