Found a plagiarized work and reported the chapter. Now what?

[Kensai]

The one who eats all

Three scientists travel to a mysterious alien planet, Nacre. To scout , explore and record findings of the local fauna. They wade through a grotesque jungle of multiform mushrooms and dense spore-clouds, hoping to unlock the secrets of this strange world. But little do they know, they may have...

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is plagiarized from Piers Anthony 1968 series Of Man and Mantas

Of Man and Manta - Wikipedia

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The character names aren’t even changed.

The original Book 1 title was Omnivore - literally the one who eats all


EDIT Impressive. 13 minutes later, the story has been removed.

 

[Nhatduongg]

You scared me, now I’m going to check for plagiarism all the time.

 

[Kensai]

Helios

In the 29th century, the Imperium of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster portals. The Imperium maintains an uneasy alliance with the TechnoCore, a civilisation of AIs. Modified humans known as Ousters live in space stations between stars and are engaged in conflict with the...

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Same author, his story Helios is plagiarized from Dan Simmons Hyperion

Hyperion Summary | Shmoop

A free summary of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. A fun and humorous chapter by chapter summary broken into tasty tidbits that you can digest.

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[BenJepheneT]

All stories shot down under 30 minutes holy shit that's FAST

 

[JM_Webb]

You're doing Bahamut's work.

 

[LilTV1155]

No one want to get on the bad side of DMCA or any lawsuit drama. It's highly expensive and risky.

But how do you determine that this story's been plagiarized from that story exactly, especially from a seemingly less known and older story?

 

[Kensai]

I’m old and had read the original. I’ve been a Piers Anthony fan since 1971.

 

[SakeVision]

Old authors: "Let's put a fantastic landscape on the cover of the book"
New authors, same story: "Boobs and begana"

 

[LilTV1155]

Words for words - Type?

 

[Saileri]

That was a nice crusade.

 

[Kensai]

More of the plagiarized story was published on RR, with the thief asking questions on how to improve. Since I’ve been reading Mr Anthony’s stories for about 50 years, it offended me.

 

[SakeVision]

More of the plagiarized story was published on RR, with the thief asking questions on how to improve. Since I’ve been reading Mr Anthony’s stories for about 50 years, it offended me.

Wait what? They were stealing the story while asking how to improve? Why not just type it word by word?

What if it was actually Piers Anthony and wanted to switch to web format?

 

[Kensai]

Hmmmm. You’ve been a successful author for over 60 years, New York Times best seller and award winning author, so yeah, let’s take an earlier published work and post it anonymously and link it to another stolen work and call it a shared universe.

This was someone who wanted the glamour of a web author’s life yet only had typing skills. Actually bad copy/paste skills since the original formatting was kept intact.

 

[LilTV1155]

This was someone who wanted the glamour of a web author’s life yet only had typing skills. Actually bad copy/paste skills since the original formatting was kept intact.

So not just words for words, but exactly the same plot wise and setting?! WELL DAMN! That was stupid.

 

[Jemini]

And this is exactly why I deeply respect the webnovelist community. Protecting any author from plajurism protects all authors. We can't let people pull BS like that.

(Except for the Chinese sites like Webnovel (and I absolutely hate that they called their site simply "Webnovel" like that as though they claimed the name of our otherwise respectful community.) They do not enforce IP on those, so there is rightly no respect for any of them and they are viewed with quite a bit of caution, suspicion, and a complete lack of respect by anyone and everyone who knows the truth about them.)

 

[TheTrinary]

Not encouraging it, but I've always wanted to see how some obscure masterpiece would fair on a site like this. Like that time Crichton submitted an Orwell essay at college and it got a B-.

 

[JM_Webb]

Not encouraging it, but I've always wanted to see how some obscure masterpiece would fair on a site like this. Like that time Crichton submitted an Orwell essay at college and it got a B-.

For real. If a famous fantasy author is reading this, I would love to see this happen, but within the rules.

 

[TheTrinary]

For real. If a famous fantasy author is reading this, I would love to see this happen, but within the rules.

Any contemporary published author will have the rights sold to a publishing house. It would have to be a work in the public domain or someone who self publishes. The only award winning self published I know is the Sword of Kano.

 

[JM_Webb]

Iirc, the martian used to be self-publishee/serialized on the dude's word press.