Reposting without Permission is Plagiarism

We've gone over this so many times and STILL, some are ignorant.

If you want to share a fic or to spread awareness about a certain author and her stories, simply create a recommendation blog complete with links. Or advertise it in tumblr, twitter, fb and other social media sites.

Reposting it without permission, even with author credit, is still a violation.

If it's not yours, don't touch it.

Even if you're scared that the author might deactivate or put the story down, you still don't have the right to "save" your own copy, let alone share that to others.

Ask permission from the author. And respect his/her decision.


So I read this post from Smiggletastic (which a repost from GloomyDragon).

Simply, I am asking AFFers, especially ChanBaek to help find the authors of these fics posted in Wattpad by a user named RATED_UNRATED.  (Yeah, that person reposted mature ChanBaek fics).

The authors should do the reporting  themselves because according to Wattpad:

"Only the owner of this content or their legal representative may submit a DMCA takedown request, so if you are in contact with them, please ask them to contact us."

Yup, that ^ 

I do suggest we follow SOP here and not flood them with reports. No cyberbullying. I would suggest no contact, no comments whatsoever, but that is impossible... So be nice. HAHA!  

Our goal is to just inform the author and said author should file a report via the report link on the right side of the fic. 

I already messaged cyndicyn22, gacktx and polopo regarding their fics. RATED_UNRATED did credit cyndicyn22 and gacktx but still... In polopo's fic, the user made it sound like it's his/her story >.> 

That is all. 

Thank you.

 

 

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FullmetalTitan
#1
Oh boy another situation huh? When will people learn...asking to share the story shouldn't be too difficult but apparently for some it is :/