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The no copy cats club
Carter-Orange:
Maybe they just get enjoyment from fooling readers?
I remember the first fanfic I wrote on a Take That site...this girl PM'd me and asked if she could copy - word for word - a few paragraphs of my story! I was kind of horrified and shocked but what could I say? I wanted to tell her to write her own damn story, but I'm too polite lol.
RokofAges75:
It's one thing to be inspired by someone else's story, a book, a movie, a TV show, or whatever. As long as you put your own spin on the idea and write it in your own way, it's fine. No idea is truly original. It's when you're literally copying or paraphrasing someone else's words without crediting them that you're plagiarizing. I don't see how anyone can do that and think it's okay.
That's so weird that someone would ask if she could copy your story, Steph LOL. I mean, at least she asked instead of just doing it, but why would she want to do that in the first place? Just write your own words!!
Carter-Orange:
I know, it was really weird!
Purpura Lipstick:
Even though I used the idea from the movie Timers I put a note in my story. I mean it was a non blockbuster movie that I watched on Netflix but the idea was not mine so I have to credit it.
I can't believe people don't credit others intellectual property.
My husband has to apply to work on programming jobs with his company. Part of what he does is THEIR intellectual property... LOL he cant work on anything similar, though that's also conflict of interest but yah they also use the phrasing intellectual property when it comes to my husbands brain!
RokofAges75:
I don't think it's a big deal to base a fanfic on a movie, as long as you credit the movie for the idea. I see that as a form of fanfic itself. As long as you're not making money off it, not a big deal. But taking actual lines from a script and passing them off as your own is the same as copying someone else's story and using find/replace to change the characters' names. Either way, it's stealing.
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