A blog (Will I get sued?)

[doravg]

Some Spanish lady/guy wrote to me that she/he used my smutty BL German Hetalia fanfic, not the original story, just checked, in her blog. The problem is, that she is teaching children German with it.

The question is, will I end up being sued for something like that? If the parents find out, they will want my head on a spike. I am pretty sure that I put smut in there because pretty much everything I wrote during that time frame had smut in it.

I did not contact this blogger, and did not get paid. Can I use these two facts in court?

 

[Corty]

The problem is, you opened this thread. Now you can't deny you knew about it and did nothing because, well, you didn't know about it.

Never do that. You could have claimed, you never read the email. Now that is no longer the case.

PS: Don't know btw. I'm not a lawyer.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Some Spanish lady/guy wrote to me that she/he used my smutty BL German original story in her blog. The problem is, that she is teaching children German with it.

The question is, will I end up being sued for something like that? If the parents find out, they will want my head on a spike. I am pretty sure that I put smut in there because pretty much everything I wrote during that time frame had smut in it.

I did not contact this blogger, and did not get paid. Can I use these two facts in court?

We are not in the lawless lands of America here.

 

[NotaNuffian]

For fuck sake tell the spanish lady in espaniol to stop.

Or if she can read, cut out the porn bits.

 

[doravg]

For fuck sake tell the spanish lady in espaniol to stop.

Or if she can read, cut out the porn bits.

she commented as a guest, and such people can't be contacted on AO3. And her comment was in Spanish, I just ran it through a translator app.

 

[NotaNuffian]

she commented as a guest, and such people can't be contacted on AO3. And her comment was in Spanish, I just ran it through a translator app.

Comment in her damned account.

Ps. you will not get sued unless you never put any content warning. Even if you are getting sued, you can still argue that the lady's a moron for ripping shit out of AO3 to use as teaching material.

That place's full of porn.

Pps. As a guest... RIP to the kids' innocences.

 

[doravg]

Comment in her damned account.

Ps. you will not get sued unless you never put any content warning. Even if you are getting sued, you can still argue that the lady's a moron for ripping shit out of AO3 to use as teaching material.

That place's full of porn.

Pps. As a guest... RIP to the kids' innocences.

I had it marked as Mature, so that should be fine. It is not like I was too descriptive. And I don't think the kids can even read the story, unless they lie about their age, or something.

 

[Omnifarious]

she is teaching children German with it.

how? by having a blog?

 

[DannyTheDaikon]

Why would you be responsible for what she's teaching them with? She's the teacher and she is responsible for providing teaching material to her students. It's the teacher's obligation to make sure the material is suitable for students, not the author of something that wasn't even meant for teaching.

 

[Omnifarious]

teacher

not enough context, it might not even be a teacher, it could be a rando holding a printout harassing kids in a playground

 

[NineHeadHeavenDevouringSerpent]

Ay why u trippin bruv... it's her dumbass doing that crap.

Anybody asks just say "I ain't know nothing bout this biatch, never seen her, never talked to her... nothing. I write for my fans, and it's tagged and everything man. I'm legit doug"

Don't accept nothing, don't say nothin they don't need to know.

 

[tiaf]

It’s your writing so they should have asked you whether she can use it or not.

But why would they use a non-native authors writing to teach German? This is suspicious. Maybe it’s just a text passage that they are using.

As for suing, absolutely unfounded. This wasn’t meant to be teaching material, wasn’t advertised as such, and who uses AO3 as source? The parents would rip at the teacher before going after an anonymous author in the www.

 

[Hopper]

Sis, listen.

A guard was reading a textbook, chilling in the church. He, as usual, was sitting near a dangerous place. A place where humans can lose their minds easily. Every day, a lot of people went to the place. We're talking hundreds of people, stepping into danger of their own will. And he told everyone about it. And, the people, accepted the fact that the responsibility of dying inside is theirs. He also announced that children are not allowed to go near or into the place.

One day, a man walks past him. Doing his daily routine, he shouts at the man, warning him that the direction he's heading to is a place to die. The man nods and continues his walk.

The next day, the same man brought some children along with him. And, coincidentally, the guard fell asleep. Some visitors told him about the guard's announcement. Yet, he chose to deafen himself from them. And of course, the children died.

Some people said that the guard made a mistake by sleeping. Well, some.

To the judges and the people who know the laws, it was the man's fault.

Yes, the guard sleeping at work was not what a guard is supposed to do, but the guard was busy helping the townee build a bridge one night before that. And, why didn't the man listen to the people's warning? Which means, why didn't he listen to the guard?

My point is:

You've warned her. Yet, she uses your work as a subject to teach. She was either oblivious to your warning, or she didn't see the warning. Tell her that you had warnings stuck on your novel and that she didn't see it.

This is also a lesson to learn for you. Even with the warnings feature developed by the web's creators, you still need to put some content warnings in the synopsis.

Now now, if somehow she dares to speak that it's your fault, do tell us, Scribblers.

I'll help you for sure.

 

[doravg]

how? by having a blog?

I am not sure. She put a link to a website for some language academy

Sis, listen.

A guard was reading a textbook, chilling in the church. He, as usual, was sitting near a dangerous place. A place where humans can lose their minds easily. Every day, a lot of people went to the place. We're talking hundreds of people, stepping into danger of their own will. And he told everyone about it. And, the people, accepted the fact that the responsibility of dying inside is theirs. He also announced that children are not allowed to go near or into the place.

One day, a man walks past him. Doing his daily routine, he shouts at the man, warning him that the direction he's heading to is a place to die. The man nods and continues his walk.

The next day, the same man brought some children along with him. And, coincidentally, the guard fell asleep. Some visitors told him about the guard's announcement. Yet, he chose to deafen himself from them. And of course, the children died.

Some people said that the guard made a mistake by sleeping. Well, some.

To the judges and the people who know the laws, it was the man's fault.

Yes, the guard sleeping at work was not what a guard is supposed to do, but the guard was busy helping the townee build a bridge one night before that. And, why didn't the man listen to the people's warning? Which means, why didn't he listen to the guard?

My point is:

You've warned her. Yet, she uses your work as a subject to teach. She was either oblivious to your warning, or she didn't see the warning. Tell her that you had warnings stuck on your novel and that she didn't see it.

This is also a lesson to learn for you. Even with the warnings feature developed by the web's creators, you still need to put some content warnings in the synopsis.

Now now, if somehow she dares to speak that it's your fault, do tell us, Scribblers.

I'll help you for sure.

thanks!

 

[QuercusMalus]

I'd say you are safe.... she may get in trouble with the parents as they would have the reasonable expectation that someone using a story to teach kids would have read the story, so in this case would know it has smut... But you as the author have no control in how a private citizen uses your story.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

is your material the only resource she is using? She could literally use anything else like babel. Her license should be revoked and fired. She could not find anyone or anything else? Just you? Really? AO3 has other German authors, but picked just you.

 

[doravg]

is your material the only resource she is using? She could literally use anything else like babel. Her license should be revoked and fired. She could not find anyone or anything else? Just you? Really? AO3 has other German authors, but picked just you.

I honestly would have expected she'd use Duolingo because that is colorful and cartoonish. The kids who she had on her website were very young.

 

[Omnifarious]

language academy

Sounds made up. Ignore. Move on.