I am so FUCKING FURIOUS - plagiarism SUCKS

[janne_d]

Does anyone know how to report plagiarism to FanFiction.Net? Some asswipe has taken 'And None But We Can Be Such Kings', done find and replace with the names and added a couple of sentences.

AND I WANT TO NUKE THEM TO ATOMS!!!!

Check it out: My Prince by sassydemon.

Where, get this:
Arthur is now Jack Harkness
Merlin is now The Doctor (written as The Doctor the whole way through, not the Doctor)
Uther is now Rose (ffs)
Morgana is now Gwen
the Dragon is now Donna (and they forgot to remove a couple of 'the 's)
Gaius is also now Donna

It doesn't even make bloody sense with those characters! Oh, sassydemon has taken out all magic references (so the conversation after they get it on is now incomprehensible) but the dialogue and POV simply doesn't work for either the Doctor or Jack. BECAUSE I WROTE IT AS ARTHUR AND MERLIN!

Which at least confirms that I can do different character voices, ha *bitterly amused*

And they put in a bloody declaration of love at the end, gah, arggh! I wouldn't do that with either set of characters!

And they've got 7 reviews telling them how good it is. THOSE ARE MY WORDS AND MY REVIEWS, BITCH!

I've got screenshots of the whole thing and I've saved it as a web page.

Help me out, oh wise flist - what do I do now?

Comments

[trobadora]

Uther is now Rose

I'm terribly sorry, but now I can't stop laughing.

(Seriously - wow, that sucks. Wish I could help. *hugs*)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Oh, fine - laugh at my pain.

I totally would find that switch funny if I wasn't so pissed off!

I've reported it as abuse at FanFiction.Net, so I guess I'll see what happens.

[trobadora]

Sorry! *hides* It' just so - out there, you know? I took a look at the reviews, and I'm all, WTF?! It's so blatantly obvious that this isn't a DW fic at all.

Reporting it is good. I hope they'll deal with it as quickly as possible. What a pain.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

GAH. Seriously?! I don't know about ff.net but report them to stop_plagiarism for a start.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I will when I can work out how...

[shei.livejournal.com]

You could always report abuse. There's one option that says "Not the propriety of uploading writer".

[syllic.livejournal.com]

Yeah. AND if you want us all to write furious letters to FF.net (it never really helps, I don't think, but at least it's logged that people complained about it), let me know--I'll certainly write one.

Sorry, Janne. It is so infuriating when this happens.

[shei.livejournal.com]

I sort of want to flame the story so the author and readers know.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely spitting with rage, seriously. I haven't been this pissed off for years!

I have reported it as abuse now so I will see what happens.

Grr, argh.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I managed to find the support section so I have sent an email in with the complaint (though I couldn't see any buttons).

This is so infuriating I can't even tell you.

[sally_maria]

That's just appalling, I don't blame you in slightest for being spitting mad about this.

I checked out her profile page and noticed a reference to a story she'd taken down "mostly because of hate mail" - what's the betting that she's done this before?

[trobadora]

You've won the bet - notice she currently has that fic up "so everyone can copy and paste it"? I googled a random line, and yep, totally plagiarised. Same search-and-replace job she did on janne_d's fic.

Edited: Difference is, this one's plagiarised not from fanfic, but from a published novel. My googling landed me on this extract from Alyson Noel's "Evermore: The Immortals".

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. FFN definitely has that covered in their TOS.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

How about twice just from Merlin fandom? I know I recognise this (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5108839/1/Fame_Fortune) as well but I can't remember who wrote it. But it for damn sure used to be Merlin and Arthur and not the Doctor and Jack again.

There is also a sequel to My Prince called My King on her page and I would bet anything that is another Merlin steal though it doesn't ring bells for me.

[trobadora]

Google says the first is Fame and Fortune by melusinahp.

(Edited for typo.)

[trobadora]

And "My King" seems to be Their Time by vail_kagami.

Googling first lines is all that it takes, OMG.

[sally_maria]

It really is quite ridiculous. It's not as if the Doctor and Jack don't have sparkage of their own, without having to poach from other people.

Any Two Guys is one thing, but Two Other Guys Entirely is really beyond a joke. I hope FFn shut her down soonest.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

It's just stupid - none of the fics she picked actually work with the Doctor and Jack as the main characters.

I've emailed the abuse address again with all this information as well.

[trobadora]

Any Two Guys is one thing, but Two Other Guys Entirely is really beyond a joke.

Couldn't agree more.

Seems all their stories we could pin down have been deleted now, but I really wouldn't bet on the remaining two being their own.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Go you - I had to take a dinner break and calm down, but I've got screen caps of the first few pages of those as well now and I'm messaging both authors to let them know.

I couldn't turn up anything with lines of the other stoiies - maybe they actually wrote those ones.

[trobadora]

maybe they actually wrote those ones.

Somehow I find that hard to believe ...

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe. I didn't read much of them anyway. Perhaps they wrote some themselves and then decided it was easier to steal.

[sally_maria]

I hope FFn take notice of all the evidence, and shut her down. There's no excuse for this kind of behaviour.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Well, their FFN page is gone. Whether they did it themselves or were shut down I can't tell, but I'm glad it has disappeared.

[julialovesrain.livejournal.com]

I am outraged. You are a great writer. Justice is imminent.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I am also outraged! FFN had better smack this troglodyte hard.

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

My response was "keeeeellll herrrrrr!" as I am the picture of reasoned reasoning and now I'm sharing my head with Hugh Dillon [yeah, the hard core logo guy] singing "Picture Frame of Rage" and that is also unhelpful unless head banging does it for you. This is really screwing with my head - who does she think she's fooling and surely the reviews are sockpuppets or complicit friends, since nobody is that stupid. *thinks about ff.net* Okay, that isn't accurate. Right now I'm hoping that she takes the same attitude to her homework, because she's not even bothering with the "rewrite it in your own words" rule and coursework and a teacher with half a brain (better still, an examiner with half a brain, because she is clearly not going to "answer the question" when she can paste in something generic or even from another book entirely. I have a MAD magazine somewhere [it was the X-Men 2 special and I bought it in Corfu) that shows how to plagirise properly and it's not rocket science. Declarations of love are a cruelty I wouldn't have inflicted on my worst enemy (unless they've done something evil lately, then I might) and I'm just typing as I'm thinking and being annoying. To quote a wise man, "grrr arrrgh!" I'm going to sharpen the stakes in the bear pit now. Pointy.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

"keeeeellll herrrrrr!" as I am the picture of reasoned reasoning

That was my exact response too and I think it very reasonable!

I don't get how it can be satisfying at all to get praise for something you didn't write. Just does not compute.

And the declarations of love at the end really annoyed me - despite being about the only original bit in the entire thing, I was so irritated to have them attached to my fic!

*joins in the stake-sharpening*

[ras-elased.livejournal.com]

UGH. THIS IS AWFUL. "AND NONE BUT WE SUCH CAN BE KINGS" IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MERLIN/ARTHUR STORIES, EVER. D:

I added my report that her stories are plagiarized and requested she be banned, but I don't know what else to do. UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO FLAME HER. BECAUSE I REALLY, REALLY WANT TO. I was about halfway through one hell of a vitriolic "review" when I realized that Oh, hey, maybe this isn't the way janne_d wants to handle this, since I noticed you hadn't left a "BITCH, THIS IS MY STORY YOU STOLE" post of your own.

BUT I AM MORE THAN READY TO TAKE UP MY PITCHFORK AND LEAD AN ANGRY MOB TO HER DOOR WHENEVER YOU'RE READY. *SEETHING QUIETLY IN FURY*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Excellent, the more reports the better I think.

I haven't gone and flamed myself because I don't actually want to have any contact with this person - they already know they stole those fics, I don't care what they have to say or think and I just don't want to get into it. But doing my best to get them banned/stories deleted etc? I'll take that.

I AM MORE THAN READY TO TAKE UP MY PITCHFORK AND LEAD AN ANGRY MOB TO HER DOOR WHENEVER YOU'RE READY

Sweet of you! I will keep the offer in mind just in case I lose my temper again later on :-)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Changed my mind and left a (polite) review telling sassydemon I had reported them for plagiarism. Guess I am still that pissed off...

And since FFN suggests reviewers take the opportunity to leave tips for improvement, I suggested she write her own fic and stop stealing other people's.

[ras-elased.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA AWESOME.

Okay, I'm going to go leave a review then, too. No promises of politeness, but I will try to keep it just shy of an actual flame review. *g*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm such a backslider. I started off all moral high ground, do not engage... and then I made the mistake of reading some of it again and slid straight off my high ground with a yell of rage!

Thanks for leaving a review as well - I didn't see it sadly as sassydemon's page and fics are now all gone (yay).

[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

I have also reported that fic as abuse. gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I think the more reports that go in the better. I really want this person's stories stolen goods taken down. And possibly for them to be banninated. Or to die in a fire...

[july-v.livejournal.com]

okay, guilty. But I'm going to read your fic now and I'll drop you a comment, don't be mad D:

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't worry - you didn't know. I can't blame people for reading it and not realising it had been plagiarised. I'm just glad someone did recognise it and let me know.

[july-v.livejournal.com]

I mean you know, of course it sucks, but the nice reviews still show YOU did a hgreat job. though I'd probably track and kill whoever steals my stuff <.<veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery sloooooowly and veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery painfully...sucker

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm sorry this happened to you. I just don't get why people do that. When I get praise for my work, I'm proud because it's my work. What's the point in getting good reviews for something you didn't write?

By the way, the link to the original story that's been given in your review at FFN doesn't work. Did you take it down or something?

EDIT: I found it. Part of the URL is missing. Did you do that on purpose of did FFN edit it out?

And thanks again for telling me about them stealing my stuff as well.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

When I get praise for my work, I'm proud because it's my work. What's the point in getting good reviews for something you didn't write?

Beats the hell out of me. Maybe some people are just in it for popularity though - I guess if all that counts is lots of comments next to your name and not what the comments are for, it kind of fits a kind of strange logic.

Part of the URL is missing. Did you do that on purpose of did FFN edit it out

Huh. If I did it, it wasn't intentional. But it has gone now with all the other deleted stolen fics so I guess it doesn't matter.

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Someone else also gave the link to your story, and there the same part of the URL was missing. So I guess FFN edited it out, for whatever reason.