Plagarism | Kittyinaz

You Guys Freaking Rock!!!

by Kittyinaz | Nov 22, 2014 | Anthem of Angels, Cross The Line, Light up the Path, My Thoughts, Plagarism, Twilight/The Mummy, Update

Seriously!!!

Her stories are down. All of them. Harley, who was the secret ok’r for me to start publishing, is thrilled. So am I!!!

First all, I am so really thankful to all of you for what you did. You stood alongside me, and I heard so few (Like under 5) naysayers but had hundreds of people pour in their support. This is amazing. I really hate to go through and post another post today on all my FanFiction, but I am unsure what to do. I have so many people who follow me!!! I think I will reload the page for my readers to know it was resolved…

Harley’s thank you can be found here:

Now for the bad news.

I will be moving myself off of FanFiction. It should have never come down to this. This should have been solved the first time we brought it up months ago, and we move on with our lives. Instead, Harley lost all those reviews, and for what? A petty disagreement on the behalf of the Plagiarist? A cheap shot?

This worries me. Seriously. Think of what this can mean. IF someone doesn’t like you, they can report you and get everything deleted.

I have my stories elsewhere, and I will admit, I am a packrat and keep every single review in my inbox on my email. All sorted into folders for each story split into their bigger parts. C’mon. This is me!!!! Not organize it?!!?!? Yeah right!

But for others… this is not an option. I did it because I had a wise mentor who told me to do it, to be able to just open a folder and see all the people who have reviewed. My first story? 259. 184 of those come from FanFiction. 821 is the highest reviews from FanFiction.. but per my count, 1,320. Wow.. There is a reason I am going to do Edge first. Dang do you guys rock!!! You’re will be next since it is 42 off from a thousand.

But still. This is not an option for many. So FanFiction rips that little thrill from Harley and others it has deleted. And it leaves many of her readers confused for awhile on if she is posting or stopped. Not right.

So… I will be moving to posting only on sites that don’t require my beta Meridian to spend extra time to rip out the items that would violate TOS. It is hard enough to post on other sites. I will miss the traffic I get from FanFiction, but can you guys really blame me? No matter how careful I am, all it will take is someone being petty to have it all ripped away anyways.

I do post on TWCS (Thanks! You know who!!!) A03, and here. FictionPad is another place I am posting. I am looking into BetterinTexas, but since I got this site, I am not seeing me moving over there also.

We will do this in a way that there is no doubt to the readers of the stories that they are moved. Everything will be finished. For the lady who asked about Tea Shoppe, it is being reworked since when I went back to it, I can’t write in past tense anymore. It messed it all up and I spent more time trying to figure out the right word than paying attention to the story. It is still a favorite. I am clearing the slate of the smaller stories so I can concentrate on the epic ones better.

For now, celebrate the win as we all are. (I’m opening up my Appletini!) Read the new Mummy Chapter. I am making the banner for Cross the line, but the chapter is ready to go. Give me some time before you click the Cross the Line banner below.

Mummy:

Cross The Line:

Remember, this is the last story post until Monday, December 1st for stories. My ladies are taking a time out for their families.

Also, I had one lady kindly ask me for an update on Murphy. So here it is:

He is off the Allergy pills as of today. He an Connor played all day, woke me up as they ran masquerading as a herd of elephants up and down my hallway. He is starting to grow his hair, and his head is no longer stiff and coarse. There is no bones showing on him now, beyond healthy. This little dog is a fighter, a survivor. He is adorable. Now if he will only learn to be potty trained….

See you guys later (Since you know I will wish you Happy Thanksgiving!!!)

This Has To End.

by Kittyinaz | Nov 22, 2014 | Plagarism

Yesterday, I was out with an attack from the mother of us all. If you follow me on Facebook, or especially if you have been around on Facebook you will know what I am talking about. For the rest of you, you can just wonder.

So what happened?!?!?

The thief, that stole stories, has come back out and attacked one of my friends.

Not acceptable.

Not at all.

So. I will tell you what I have gathered. A lot of people are angry. So angry that they are taking action. Which I full heartedly agree with. They are keeping this clean folks, we are not descending down to her level. But we refuse to be silent, since that has done nothing but make her think she can continue to do things.

I seriously believe that this person is young, or young in mind. The way she goes about things is not mature, nor is it something that a bunch of adults need to deal with, but since there seems no stopping, there is a time that you have to say stop.

But, Kitty, you are replying to her! You are feeding the troll, you are giving her the attention she craves!

I will answer to this. I ignored her. My friends ignored her. And she didn’t quit. We took the very high road. And she did not learn a lesson. Instead she acted out on accounts she has POSTED that are hers but she is not able to access. This smacks of a young person who does not think the consequences of her actions all the way through. It may have been good enough in school, but this is the real life, and the world doesn’t operate like that.

She has been warned. But she has not learned a lesson. She has somehow got it in her head that this is allowable. That she has some right by being published on Amazon that allows her to be better than the rest of us. That she is right.

I’m sorry, but lessons in real life are about to commence. We are taking a stand, and asking others to join us in this. Over on Bertie Bott’s site, there is a petition going on. I highly recommend you go there and participate in it. One stand instead of many might get the attention of FanFiction.

There are advocators for the rights of FanFiction writers. While I get traffic from FanFiction and use them to gain interest from stories, their attitude that FanFiction Writers have no rights, has gained me nothing but disgust for them.

So here is my plan. I will reply to Bertie‘s petition. Then I will do my own campaigning, taking this morning to report each and every story. I know there is more plagiarizing going on, and I have asked for people to read her stories, to check for their own being stolen. There are storylines I have seen being taken from stories I have read on Twilight, she is now writing for other fandoms to help hide her tracks. It isn’t working very well if I noticed. So I will report the stories.

If I am taken off FanFiction since I have the audacity to complain about another author, say la vie. Less work for me to update on. I will NOT be working any new stories to the site. The stories that are there, well they will be stopped soon. Sorry for the FanFiction readers, but this is my stand.

FanFiction repeatedly erases others works without the courtesy of warning them as an adult will. They refuse to be adults, so why should I continue to treat them like the children they are. Will this hurt me? Maybe. But I like to think I am established enough to make that decision. I will post a summary of any stories I write so they can be teased with what they are missing.

I am taking a stand, and I am tired of the idiocy that has overtaken the world. Plagiarism is WRONG. It is stealing and there is no religion in the world that accepts this as acceptable. This person thinks she is above the law, above the acceptable society acceptable norm. She thinks she is above us all, and treats the rules as not even a guideline to what is acceptable.

Basically. I will be reposting on my reblog all of the responses to all of this, and I highly recommend that you read them all. I also highly recommend you sign up on Bertie‘s petition. And finally. The person who has borne this attack.

Harley.

Go to her site and follow her. Do it because she is a kickass author that deserves none of this.

Do it because it is the right thing to do.

Do it to show your support behind someone who only defended herself and had her stories removed from FanFiction.

Again, I am tired of this, and I am done with so much of it. And I will do what I can before I am probably taken off. I will break TOS in FanFiction to post on EVERY story I have about what has happened. What I think. So expect to see this post everywhere.

And if you don’t believe all this, I would like to redirect you to the actual exchanges I had with her on the subject that I posted here before:

Plagiarism

More on what is going on

by Kittyinaz | Sep 18, 2014 | Plagarism

I have tried to say my piece and walk away. She did remove my story.. but left a PM to me saying she is going to repost it later…

I am going to leave the latest PM’s to me I have received. I let you make your own decisions, and then I will end it with what the forum who was kind enough to message me to help sent me. I HIGHLY encourage each and every author to check your stories, and if one of your stories has been stolen, then please use the form to report it. Unfortunately, I have to wait for her to post my story again. No I have NOT replied to any of her or her Beta’s PM’s. But I have saved each and everyone of them.

Received 09/17/14 1:30pm CST:

Hi i am sorry.

Sep 17Hi i just wanted to let you know i am sorry if i sounded rude to you the last name it was not my attention to be rude to you or anyone else even cause trouble. I hope through time you can forgive me since I apologized on my profile and in time we can become friends as well. I admitted I know very little about Godric I only know more about the others of true blood. Most of my stories are like drabble chapter based unless I take time and hours to write them really long. I am trying to clear my name through the mud and from advice from others one of these days be a prolific writer like you and others who I am a fan of someday. I really hope you can forgive me for my mistake and also others who are your friends forgive me as well. I really hope someday you and the others can become my friends.

Received 09/18/17 3:08pm:

Hi Kitty

3h agoHi my beta is friends with you and she told to tell you sorry for the Godric she is working me on the plot of it and fixing it for me as well the other crossover stories on my profile. I am sorry about the Bella/Godric I hope you can forgive me and we can become friends.

Then Received from her beta: 09/18/17 5:12pm:

1h ago

I know you do not know me personally, but i do know of u and ur fantastic stories. I am currently the beta to ericbella27. I will tell u the same i have Dr Harleen Frances Quinzel. she is my personal friend:
You have no idea how sorry I am…when I was helpingericbella27 with her stories I did so just because her grammar,spelling and having it be in 3rd person context neededto be corrected…when she asked me a who myfav authors werei mention a few off the top of my head including u ( DrHarleen FrancesQuinzel) andbertiebott and jinxdodson and kityanz…as my top few…i did not know if it was because of me that she went aftery’alls storiesor not buti introduced them to her in hopes she could see how theywere written and get an idea of how storiesshould be written…not by copying u guys stuff and by ideai mean the flow and everything not being in 3rd person context. that is the only ideai asked her to grasps. to show her that u guys stories are what hard work and dedication is call about thatur stories and well as others are how storiesshould be written with proper grammar and spelling and things not being in 3rd person context…that is the ONLY ideai wanted her to grasp. I SWEAR, you (DrHarleen FrancesQuinzel) know I have always supportedur stories even more so after u (DrHarleen FrancesQuinzel) told me thatur joker/bellafic was/is inspired by me. I will talk to her about getting her stories removed because u guys are myfav authors. andi cannot in any good moral continue to stand by as her beta and watch this spiral. i will also be making sure all of her workis revised and or trashed if it cannot be changed or fixed into a different story from the plagiarized ones…again i’ll be talking to her.

……

During all this, my betas have reported the following messages on her profile page (since I was sleeping while this was going on.)

……..I am tired of people who are jealous of me and my stories and bringing haters by posting my profile on theirs for their mistakes of copying off each other and blaming new authors like myself for their mistakes. It takes one to know one and I point at anyone who bad mouths me and my stories and how I am a bad author to the ones who started it first I certainly didn’t but I know a few others who plagerize each others works and blame it on others. you know who you are stop bad mouthing me my stories and my writing for the things I come up with. If you do not like any of my stories and how I wrote them then leave my profile alone and quit complaining to me in my reviews for certain authors blaming me even if they plagerize each other. My stories will stay on here quite having my profile and blaming me as the guilty party. When really you all should be ashamed of yourselves. And are jealous of me and take it out on me. I will be working on my two stories that are upcoming and will post them in October. As well working on the pairing stories and will post them soon for the people who ask for me to do pairings for them.

My only reply is.. No one copies each other work in this or any fandom I am part of. Nor am I jealous of her. I do NOT give her permission to write my story.

Current Post:

Okay, I have apologized to Harleen and others and she is becoming my friend and I have apologized to Kittyinaz, Cuinawen, and Bertie Bott my beta is helping me fix the plots to my stories. And she is also friends with these authors. I do not want anymore people complaining to me about my stories I have written them and my beta GoddessxNyte is fixing the plots for me. I will repost the Godric/Bella one and the first chapter to the Spike/Bella one as well the remade version of Iron Man and his love. But the remade version of Iron Man and his love will be posted in October as well, with the new Joker/Bella one and Captain America Steve Rogers/Bella one as well in October. As for my pairing request stories they will be posted soon.

Again… I will leave you guys to make your own opinions.

Through this, I have been made aware of a forum that helps authors with these situations. The thread on this situation is as follows: https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/124913/120784214/1/#120804353

In Addition, they also sent me the following form to be used:

DMCA takedown Email Template (owners only)

Copy paste and fill out the relevant portions as required.

FanFiction.net Copyright Infringement NotificationTo Whom It May Concern,

I have discovered that my (short story/poem/novel), [insert story title], has been altered and posted without my permission by a writer on FanFiction.net named [insert plagiarist penname] [insert plagiarist profile link]. I am from [insert country you’re from].

My original fan fiction short story can be found here: [insert your story link]. I published it on [insert publishing date].

Her/His plagiarized copy can be found here:

[insert link to plagiarized copy]. S/He published it on [insert plagiarized story date].

Copyright law in the United States implies that even a derivative work (which mine is) that cannot be sold enjoys some protection from copyright infringement. We can see this in the realm of approved derivative works such as tie-in novels. I realize this is still a gray area, and is disputed in many venues. However, until a definite ruling comes down which removes fan fiction entirely from under the copyright umbrella, I will claim what rights I do have. [Use this ONLY if your work is also fanfiction AND if you are from the US. Delete if your work is original.]

You may reach me at my email address: [your email address].

I have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work described above is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is otherwise not permitted by law.

I swear that the information contained in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or have an exclusive right in law to bring infringement proceedings with respect to its use.

Thank you. I look forward to a timely resolution to this matter.

[Add electronic or scanned physical signature, depending on how you are sending this.]

Please use the form to send in the links, this can be done by the owner of the story only as I read it. Again, please go through the stories on her page, and if you either recognize your own, then use the above form to report it, or if you can tell who the story was stolen from, please let the author know as well as the help being given us to solve this.

I am going to work on my convention page, but I will support and continue to support my fellow authors in this endeavor. Since she has removed the story, I cannot help in that manner. But I am watching for it to be reposted.

I am NOT nor will I ever become a friend to someone like this. I don’t think she would understand what it would mean to be a friend, which to me is to support my friends. She cannot accept she is wrong and that has lost me any respect.

Thank you. All of you. That there is such an outpouring of help and support means a lot to all of us. Once I get the convention page done, I will be working on the stories.. hopefully when I get my normal internet back!!! I’m working off my mifi, which is not really that easy. And everything of mine is based on the internet so I never had to worry about hard drives crashing…

Thanks again, we all appreciate it. Please feel free to share this so we can spread the word.

Wendy