[Once A Thief Online Gratuito
Sharif Garmon
Yelena was in the main pantry as she stood on her tiptoes on top of the ugliest yellow rolling chair she had ever laid her eyes on, stretching as far to the left that she could, when a pair of training shoes squeaked to an abrupt stop behind her.
I noticed they were suddenly using British English (watercolour instead of watercolor), while the rest of the fanfic was written in American English (e.g., organize, not organise). So I had a feeling that sentence was copied from someone else. With a little bit of googling, I found that they might have stolen it from a website called The Descriptionari:
The sun blooms on the horizon, golden petals stretching ever outwards into the rich blue. The rooster crows as an invitation to a new day and Kate peaks an eye out of her blanket to the sunrise that was so ordinary and extraordinary.
The sun blooms on the horizon, golden petals stretching ever outwards into the rich blue. It is the brilliant flower of the sky that warms our days. It is the invitation to a new day, that sunrise so ordinary extraordinary.
Small folded pieces of paper begin to gather in her vest. There are flowers, dinosaurs, cute puppy faces with tiny noses drawn on them when the restaurant had a pencil to spare, various sized spiders and birds.
On the bright side, I got emails, comments, and messages from hundreds (!!!) of readers and writers from the sapphic community, expressing their support. It was really great to see others being just as outraged and shocked as I am and to see them speaking up against plagiarism and copyright infringements.
I re-read my blog post above, and I think: Ha! Little did I know! Because the problem is much worse than just one of my books being plagiarized. Since the beginning of the week, I found a total of 7 of my novels, which were all plagiarized, the character names changed, but otherwise posted word for word under different author names on various online platforms.
WOW! The nerve. I am sorry this has happened to you and to all of the fantastic Sapphic authors. Please take some action, you work too hard on your books to have someone come along and grab the credit out from under you.
I did reach out and send a takedown notice yesterday. So far, I only got back an automated response, but I know they get thousands of complaints each month. I do hope they will take it down very soon.
I am so sorry this has happened to you. Perhaps the problem does not just exist with the individuals doing this but with AO3 as well. I think these websites need to be held accountable as well. I wish there was some way to stop this. You have complete support from the community so let us know if we can help.
Fanfiction sites always walk a fine line, but I have heard AO3 do a good job taking down plagiarized works. I have alerted them, but so far only got an automated response letting me know they will review the issue.
Thanks, Patty. I think our readers are our best line of defense. They read an amazing amount of books and some read fanfiction too, so sooner or later, chances are they will stumble across a stolen book.
Thanks for informing and educating us on what you and other writers go through. It is really theft. As you said you spent so much time to create and then put in your business time to publish and ensure it is as successful as it can be. It really is intolerable. Glad someone was able to notice it and inform you.
You are a talented author who treats everyone as fairly as you can, with brilliant insights into the diversities of the readers and their interests. You have a fantastic representation of many types of people in your books, and it was a bright light in my life to come across them years ago.
That is truly awful. I spend a significant portion of my time dealing with copyright issues because libraries do not want to get sued. IP theft makes me really angry on behalf of the author involved and on professional principles. I am sorry this happened to you and there is no real way to find the thief. The advantage of American copyright law if you are in America is the ability to prosecute. I am sorry this is not an option for you.
This is so sad. You, especially do so much for new authors. You spend a lot of time boosting other up and building a community of sapphic book readers. I am sorry you are having to deal with this. Thank you for all you do !!!
OMG! This is truly awful. As wannabe writer I have struggled for years and months to get the ideas in my head into a format that I can (hopefully!) share with others. I cannot understand the motivation of someone who steals the work of others and represents it as their own. If this happened to me I would feel as if someone had broken into my home and invaded my thinking space, before pocketing my laptop, notes, and research, crossing my name out, and slapping their own across each component. Well done you for standing up to it and calling it out.
This is really infuriating! If this people who plagiarized would put their energy into creating their own work, they would have something to be proud of! Instead of robbing you of your much deserved accolades. I loved Bachelorette Number Twelve and I thought it was fantastic! Good for you Jae, making the world aware of these charlatans who steal your hard work!
Wow! I can certainly understand how traumatic this experience has been. I too am sorry that you have had to deal with it all. I deeply appreciate and respect the time and effort you spend on each of your books.
I feel, as writers, we live in the Wild West, everything is wide open and we need to guard ourselves from the wolves who steal our cattle, parading along the fences of our territory with guns and stones we assembled ourselves, knowing that when push comes to shove, none of our weapons will help.
The free publicity boosts sales is an argument libraries have used over time to negotiate lower prices when purchasing or buying books. It keeps the library price at 5 x list price instead of 10 or more because it benefits publishers, authors, and libraries by balancing booksales with library mission. So the people who use a legitimate argument made by libraries taken out of context to justify theft are stealing our ideas and harming libraries in addition to authors and publishers. Libraries get their money from taxes paid by the public to benefit the public. Plagiarism and piracy erase the very claim they are promoting and libraries pay more for materials as a result, which means fewer materials, our users suffer and our budgets get cut for not meeting user needs. Unfunded libraries close depriving their communities. Equating what they do with what libraries do is both insult and injury to libraries. No part of the publishing ecosystem benefits from lies and outright theft and everyone but the thieves pay the price. I am sorry this is happening and there are few ways to stop it. Technology makes theft too easy.
Jae, you are the best. thank you for all that you do for this community. I am so sorry for how much pain and frustration this has caused for you and all of the other authors who have been affected. I really loved your response to the Facebook comment. with poise and grace you shut that down hard. ? hope this whole situation helps change some minds and gets people to think twice about reading on sites that have so many plagiarized works. also I hope you have the happiest birthday ??
I really hope so too. As a society, we need to appreciate creative work more and understand that authors and other creatives should be compensated for their hard work. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and leave a comment!
I am also busy writing my own novel and have been at it for a year already and I can agree that it is hard work. Keep up the good work Jae, and thank you for all the other competitions and giveaways that you host.
I hope all the supportive comments notes help a little, because I am certain this violation of your copywrite feels horrible. If anyone thinks of a way to shut down this kind of behavior, I hope they will let everyone else know. Your books are fantastic; they make a real difference in our lives.
I am so disappointed in humans that take advantage of others. It seems our world is infected with greed and laziness. I am an avid reader, I have purchased every book I have read and then donated them to local libraries where ever I have lived. I often write reviews and recommendations on the books I have enjoyed and occasionally on books I disliked! In my stilted view, crimes of theft and plagiarism should be dealt with equally having the authors works tallied up in value of expected sales may show the potential cost so law enforcement may see the value as real and punishments may deter more theft. Problem is no one would believe the value of the written words unless they themselves have written them!
I applaud the time commitment you have made to try to stop this from continuing.
I hope your birthday celebration is a joyous one. Please keep writing, I love your style and own almost all of your books, mostly on kindle now, my library at home has a much smaller place now that I have downsized! Blessings!
Have you ever stopped to consider how much originality and spontaneity emanatefrom these various individuals who, on the preceding evening, did not even knoweach other, and who are now, for several days, condemned to lead a life ofextreme intimacy, jointly defying the anger of the ocean, the terribleonslaught of the waves, the violence of the tempest and the agonizing monotonyof the calm and sleepy water? Such a life becomes a sort of tragic existence,with its storms and its grandeurs, its monotony and its diversity; and that iswhy, perhaps, we embark upon that short voyage with mingled feelings ofpleasure and fear.
But, during the past few years, a new sensation had been added to the life ofthe transatlantic traveler. The little floating island is now attached to theworld from which it was once quite free. A bond united them, even in the veryheart of the watery wastes of the Atlantic. That bond is the wirelesstelegraph, by means of which we receive news in the most mysterious manner. Weknow full well that the message is not transported by the medium of a hollowwire. No, the mystery is even more inexplicable, more romantic, and we musthave recourse to the wings of the air in order to explain this new miracle.During the first day of the voyage, we felt that we were being followed,escorted, preceded even, by that distant voice, which, from time to time,whispered to one of us a few words from the receding world. Two friends spoketo me. Ten, twenty others sent gay or somber words of parting to otherpassengers.
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