12:04am: Is there a law that covers this? Should be.
Since my latest fandom obsession is CSI, I've been reading the CSI boards over at TWOP. So as I wend my way, delighting in my obsession, through the board dedicated to the character Sara I stumble upon
( an argument regarding...something. )Lizbet decides to back out of the argument, stating "But I'd also rather be a live coward than a dead hero. If I was on a road in Iraq and someone started shooting at me, I'd duck for cover until things cooled down."
Read it here, folks.
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2:37am: Good lords...
Over on the LJ feed, the comic Get Fuzzy gets wanky.
2:44pm: *whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine*
Don't you love it when they throw a fit because they got caught?
As most people know, the easiest way to get blacklisted from a fandom is to commit the ultimate sin. Plagiarism.
As it happened on a LOTR list, Gilraen stole bits (quite a few bits) of someone else's story verbatim and tried to call it "inspiration." The author who "inspired" her found out about this and was naturally unhappy. Said author proceed to post her displeasure, behaving a lot better than I would have...
( You stole my story! )Now the author's case was pretty solid because her fic had reviews from over a year ago and the plagiarist's did not. So the mods ban her and remove all her fic from the list archive, reasoning that if she did it to one she probably did it to others.
Plagiarist cries foul! Starts emailing people and whining all over the place saying that they shouldn't take down her original stuff, etc, etc. It boils down to YOU'RE MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!111onetwo
Naturally the ever-persecuted plagiarist has posted a giant whine in her LJ about how she will REMAIN STRONG despite what the efil fandom is trying to do to her. Link is here
http://www.livejournal.com/users/minas__ithil/7363.html but since it will probably be friendslocked, I've taken the liberty of copying it for you
( Here )Le sigh. Anyway she's deleted anything anyone posts there so far but I have also taken the liberty of tracking down one example of her plagiarism (inspiration).
( Original author )( Thief )Anyway, that's just one example. Leeetle too close for comfort for most authors. The rest of it follows much the same pattern, change the name or part of a sentance and call it original. *sigh* I really didn't feel like slogging through the rest to find more copied material.