purchases and plagiarism

[tzikeh]

Two items for you all -

1) flummery has zines for sale for the cost of postage. Variety of fandoms. Check 'em out.

2) A Man from UNCLE story was plagiarized and posted as an "original story" in La Femme Nikita fandom.

Here is the plagiarist's post: http://www.voy.com/58826/1005.html

Here is the original story: http://file40.net/file40g/andmiles_g.html

Note the posting date of the original is March 2003, and the "original story" in LFN was posted in August.

The usual plea to go and reprimand the plagiarist comes next. We are a self-policing community; please go add your voices to the very few so far who have said "Plagiarism isn't worth it in fandom; you will *always* be found out and ridiculed."

Comments

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was blatant! Does anyone have any clues to the real identity of the little weasel?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Not that I know. I'm *assuming* she's just some idiot kid, but it's also possible it's a 45-year-old woman. <sigh>. I'd like to be able to truthfully say "usually it's someone who is young and/or new to fandom", because you'd think anyone who has been in fandom even a little while understands that it can seem huge but is in fact quite small.

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

Yes the SF professional and fannish world is very small. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody has read everything (seemingly). Odds are, that even if a particular show or writer isn't your particular favorite, one of your friends can tell you everything there is to know about the original work and all of the associated fanfic.

It really doesn't matter how old the thief is. Stealing is stealing and is repugnant at any age. I'd be interested in how many fannish pseudonyms this idiot uses in order to see what other fic she may have stolen under other names.

[delle.livejournal.com]

as one from the LFN fandom...

Deby is a complete unknown. She's never posted nor commented on the LFN storyboards before. The Classics board is very small and not very active - I actually rarely go there, so it seems like an odd place to be posting in general.

Please give credit to our Jaron, who was the first to raise the question about the story and apparently recognized it. Nestra and Melymbrosia tracked down the story, I just passed the question to Nestra, since she's more multi-fandom than I am (I actually thought the original story might be XFiles).