Plagiarisation headscratchy.
Oct. 16th, 2012 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperSo. I just found out I got plagiarised. Which is... weird. It's an old Dark is Rising fic I wrote back in 2004, Ordinary Boy.
Scenario being that Bran visits Will at Oxford and and everyone goes 'Stanton has a *boyfriend*? Since when was Stanton gay?' 'Never mind the gay thing, since when did Stanton have a *libido*?' Complete fluff to amuse myself. Posted it, got feedback, posted it on ff.net at the time, I occasionally look back at it when i'm feeling nostalgic.
First thing I knew about the plagiarisation was when the 'author' emailed me today in a really, really backhanded way to apologise and say they must have read mine but didn't remember, if it wasn't for the fact that mine was published in 2004 and theirs in 2007, they'd have thought I'd plagiarised them. After someone called them out on it in the comments of the fic, pointing out that the scenario, plot, and even some of the dialogue is nearly word-for-word Ordinary Boy. I did a side-by-side comparison and yep, the commenter's right. Incredibly weird. Changed details - eg, in one scene in the pub, Bran hurts a drunk's hand, they have their character twist the drunk's arm behind their back. It's pretty impressive. They even have a note in the summary section that this isn't the kind of thing/style they'd usually write. I do love the congratulatory comments that say 'I've never seen x and x written like this, but I really like it!' Yep. Because it was written to be in character for a mouthy arrogant welsh boy and an Old One. set in the early 80s. But anyway. It's over here: Do You Ever Wish, in the Code Lyoko fandom. Which from the general comments I think is a manga fandom.
I haven't asked her to delete it, I've just asked her to put a note on it. Mostly extremely bemused in the 'seriously, why would you *bother*. And then put all the effort in of re-working it.' fashion.
Scenario being that Bran visits Will at Oxford and and everyone goes 'Stanton has a *boyfriend*? Since when was Stanton gay?' 'Never mind the gay thing, since when did Stanton have a *libido*?' Complete fluff to amuse myself. Posted it, got feedback, posted it on ff.net at the time, I occasionally look back at it when i'm feeling nostalgic.
First thing I knew about the plagiarisation was when the 'author' emailed me today in a really, really backhanded way to apologise and say they must have read mine but didn't remember, if it wasn't for the fact that mine was published in 2004 and theirs in 2007, they'd have thought I'd plagiarised them. After someone called them out on it in the comments of the fic, pointing out that the scenario, plot, and even some of the dialogue is nearly word-for-word Ordinary Boy. I did a side-by-side comparison and yep, the commenter's right. Incredibly weird. Changed details - eg, in one scene in the pub, Bran hurts a drunk's hand, they have their character twist the drunk's arm behind their back. It's pretty impressive. They even have a note in the summary section that this isn't the kind of thing/style they'd usually write. I do love the congratulatory comments that say 'I've never seen x and x written like this, but I really like it!' Yep. Because it was written to be in character for a mouthy arrogant welsh boy and an Old One. set in the early 80s. But anyway. It's over here: Do You Ever Wish, in the Code Lyoko fandom. Which from the general comments I think is a manga fandom.
I haven't asked her to delete it, I've just asked her to put a note on it. Mostly extremely bemused in the 'seriously, why would you *bother*. And then put all the effort in of re-working it.' fashion.
