Reporting Plagiarism! Help Pls!

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Posted: 8 years ago
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Hello...

I found out today that my story has been put up on third party site without my permission. I would like to contact the owner of the site or at least the host to have it take it down but I dont find a way to do it. The site looks messy and crazily confusing...In the footer it was mentioned as powered by wordpress but when I contacted Wordpress they said it's not hosted by Wordpress so they cannot help...


Here is the site address that copied my fiction "Baby Khoo in Love with Greek God"

https://sherlyblog.com/allrecipes/maths-quest-789101112-jacaranda.html



Here is where I originally shared my work for my readers...


If anyone experienced similar situation or dealt with this site, please advice me what to do. I am right now completely clueless as I am unable to reach the site owner or host.

I don't even know if its proper site or search engine...

Appreciate your help!

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Posted: 8 years ago
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I don't know how to help u yaar
U hold the copyright right
let me check with my cousin ...he is a writer ..
i will get back to u
i just hate these people ...lot of people stop being on IF
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Dear you better open a blog.coz many writers like you considering it for a while.Last year they have faced similar issues.I know few writers in twitter and I think they may help you in this issue.A few like @Jigs @Jen007 @Aimmy...I don't know whether they got rid of this issue or not.But I know that they have been through this..Good luck..
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Seems like new website and her privet blog first contact that blog holder
that it your work and she should delete it if she not doing it then you can complain
to the authorities of that website
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Hi dear I think its not some fictional story blog as at end it had referred your story link as source so I think maybe someone who had read your story had copied and posted it their. Its look likes blog pages people uses for queries, news information etc. and the way it was done mentioning your msg its look like someone had tried to share your story very immaturely but still its very wrong to use someone work without permission so you either contact that page manager or also post comment on page that you don't approved it so they remove your story from their as its your work I don't think they are going to refuse but for that page needed to be active which I doubt still try for once.

Hope my suggestion is helpful.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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One more thing when I checked its home page many type tab like msg, mail, Twitter etc had opened for contacting them so you can try it.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Hi Toxic,
Looks like the entire story has been posted unfortunately. I'm not sure what can be done since this looks like it is not a wordpress or blogspot site. It is very difficult to trace a privately hosted site. There are facebook and twitter share links on the page. Maybe you can tweet the link and publicly shame the person into removing the story? I cannot think of anyother way to force someone to pull down your story. Really sorry that this happened to you. Wish I could think of any other way to help you out. No one deserves to have their hardwork stolen. The only silver lining is that I don't see very many followers for the blog.

Hope you resolve it soon.

Sandya
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: Rabiha

Hi dear I think its not some fictional story blog as at end it had referred your story link as source so I think maybe someone who had read your story had copied and posted it their. Its look likes blog pages people uses for queries, news information etc. and the way it was done mentioning your msg its look like someone had tried to share your story very immaturely but still its very wrong to use someone work without permission so you either contact that page manager or also post comment on page that you don't approved it so they remove your story from their as its your work I don't think they are going to refuse but for that page needed to be active which I doubt still try for once.

Hope my suggestion is helpful.



I tried posting a comment asking her to take it down but its going to FB directly. I have for now contacted the domain host and reported the abuse. Will wait and see what action they take...Thank you for your input.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: ToxicLove

Hello...

I found out today that my story has been put up on third party site without my permission. I would like to contact the owner of the site or at least the host to have it take it down but I dont find a way to do it. The site looks messy and crazily confusing...In the footer it was mentioned as powered by wordpress but when I contacted Wordpress they said it's not hosted by Wordpress so they cannot help...


Here is the site address that copied my fiction "Baby Khoo in Love with Greek God"

https://sherlyblog.com/allrecipes/maths-quest-789101112-jacaranda.html



Here is where I originally shared my work for my readers...


If anyone experienced similar situation or dealt with this site, please advice me what to do. I am right now completely clueless as I am unable to reach the site owner or host.

I don't even know if its proper site or search engine...

Appreciate your help!


Take it with the mods I guess. This is insane and outright unfair. No wonder that the good writers are going to private blogs
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Even though the person gave the source link of your story, yet apart from that, nowhere did she mention that the story has been your creation. She mentioned the story as her own. And neither did she take your permission. That's blatant plagiarism. I suggest you to do what many writers of IF are doing nowadays - remove all your finished stories which might still be present here and transfer them to a private blog. Plagiarism on IF has increased tenfold since a year. Hope you are successful in dealing with this and removing it from that site.

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