Plagiarism Alert

[suki_blue]

The wonderful Harry/Draco fic All His Saints, a lovely H/C by setissma has become a victim of plagiarism. While I'm sure it's the highest form of flattery, it's also very upsetting for the author and it's just not right.

setissma, like most writers, put a huge amount of work into that fic and hotspur18 should be fucking ashamed of herself for copying entire sentences and making mockery of what it means to be a writer.

The offending fic is The First Concern of Amber - Btvs (Wesley/Lindsey). I see some familiar names in the comments to this fic and I'm angry on your behalf that you've wasted valuable time reading and commenting. I'm afraid you've been taken in.


Edit: Fine, it's just been taken down. But please do watch out for it on the archives and fic comms

Edit2: Summary here

Comments

[katekat]

thank you for posting about this and getting the word out. Unfortunately hotspur18 has apparently done this more than once. Her supposed Giles/Anya entry "Practical Magic"> for summer_of_giles was also stolen from penknife's fantastic fic "Practical Approach", a Remus/Tonks, Remus/Sirius fic. antennapedia helpfully saved the text file because hotspur18 had already deleted it by the time we got notified. It's pretty clearly a case where she searched and replaced the names but preserved almost everything else. As the SOG mods, both elizabuffy and I are frustrated and disappointed and I just wanted to thank you for letting others know as well.

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome. I feel that it's so important for these people to be shown up for what they are, thieves. I can't believe she's even done this before and was caught! Hers is definitely a name we need to keep an eye on. she's obviously not banked on people reading HP and Btvs.