We're doing this plagiarising fanfic thing AGAIN!
This time, we're looking at Plush Books, who have stolen fic by MANY authors & fandoms. I urgently need your help to reach these authors and trace other stolen works.
According to Plan by FeelingsDusk
archiveofourown.org/works/6490537
They also stole The Midday Lord by Ketren #teenwolf
archiveofourown.org/works/14689223
Hybrid Wars, by Jess J #underworld fanfiction.net/s/1544048/1/Hy…
This is Portrait of the Hunter by sunbune #VampireHunterD
fanfiction.net/s/2874168/1/Po…
A Different Kind of Hunter, by Queen's Perogative #LittleVampire
fanfiction.net/s/8707213/1/A-…
Bridge of Scars by TricksterShi
archiveofourown.org/works/33420562
#teenwolf #sterek
The Shoulder of Sin and Purity by RoxanneNight #hellsing
archiveofourown.org/works/29365980
Hunter/Hunted by Breeze907 #whenthenightcomes
archiveofourown.org/works/32349118
A Change in a Man by Blondie2000 #Supernatural #Spnfam #SPN
archiveofourown.org/works/16397762
Love unexpected by Believer #CriminalMinds
archiveofourown.org/works/8627674
True Colors by EvenEth13, vrskaandrea (MalicMalic) #SPN #Supernatural
archiveofourown.org/works/21018527
Friends, at this point I need help urgently. Plush Books have published 538 books to date. I can't search all of them for fics.
amazon.com/stores/author/…
If you could, please help out.
Identify fic. Contact the fic writers. Tell them to file copyright claims for the stolen work.
DMCA requests require:
1. Affirm authorship: " I affirm under penalty of perjury that I am the author of the work posted at [LINK]. "
2. Your request to file copyright claim: "Under statute 17 USC 512, Amazon has a legal obligation to take down [Author]'s [Book] in response to a valid DMCA takedown notice by the author."
3. If you don't want to provide your name and address, you don't have to:
" I don't need to fill in my contact info and I don't have to provide my home number and address to make my claim valid. >>> cont
(3, cont) I've written in the author's note section of my fic that I haven't given [Author] permission to use my work, which is proof enough that [Author] has stolen the work from someone"
4. Request it's removal.
I urge you to consider claiming the money the stolen work has made. If you are uncomfortable keeping it, consider donating it to the OTW, who run Ao3.
This may require you to give them your name/address.
Here is how to DMCA - Link your own story on Ao3!
There is a spreadsheet to track fic writers
Plush Books also sells books as J.D. Geragthy, Simply Taste, Plush Booka and Pluah Books.
This is systematic. Amazon should be ashamed.
Many of these fics were turned into books by FicLabs, as caught by @DeltaPavonisArt:
FicLabs are willing to help any affected authors. Contact them via Twitter DM or the webform: ficlab.com/contact
twitter.com/FicLabApp/
Around 400 fic authors have been contacted. Several "books" have been taken down by Amazon.
Plush Books is still publishing (535 to 549) though apparently mostly "cookbooks" that seem to have an identical summary and the text when you trial them is also identical in all "books".
Sorry, friends! We had to turn editing off and comments on for CoinOfStone's spreadsheet.
There were too many people helping out, it broke the sheet.
I love you all
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