#anti plagiarism

[manikas-whims]

“i could care less if she's copying whoever”

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Imagine being so disgusting and supporting a literal thief. Imagine defending a stolen premise and straight up copied paragraphs over moral values.

BOTH THE AUTHORS (@/explorevenus and zombie ), WHOSE WORKS GOT STOLEN ARE GENUINELY HURT!

I don't know when fandom spaces became so rife with rude, insensitive and disrespectful people. But please fuck off from my blog if you are fine with plagiarism 🤬 and with @dollgxtz’s actions.

i didn't know LADS had such insensitive people in the fandom.

[reikomizuao3]

Calling out a Plagiarist *I HAVE SCREENSHOTS*

We do not support plagiarism on dis here tumblr, so I'm calling you out!!

The user Loves2Write on the website Archive of Our Own, in their story "The Snow Queen" has plagiarized paragraphs from the story "The Joy Of Vengeance" by dearly departed TheCuriousCalico. I have reported them, but I'm posting screenshots in case they scramble to cover it up

This is the original text:

This is the plagiarized text

As a writer, nothing pisses me off more than plagiarism, and any time I see it happen, I'm calling it out!!

[fandom-hoarder]

Watching the 4 hr hbomberguy vid about plagiarism, to cap off a week where I was deciding what to do about a plagiarized wincest fic. Interesting juxtaposition. 😂

[fourdramas]

Bill Ackman single-handedly taking on anti-plagiarism algorithms in academia on X 👀👀

[acatwithstockings]

Plagiarism does NOT hurt big companies!

Plagiarism isn't sticking it to the "big guys"

Plagiarism is NOT a brave stance against creative monopols.

I repeat Plagiarism is NOT a valid tool in the fight for better creative outputs.

Palworld is a prime example of creative bankruptcy and how people will fall for the marketing out of frustration with the original source. Having a remix of certain games as base concept is fine and is, in fact how many great games got their start HOWEVER never putting in the effort to make it something else than a remix speaks of laziness and disregard for the project as a whole.

Palworld didn't have to plagiarize Pokemon by just mashing some designs together and calling it a day. It was just for marketing.

Palworld didn't have to copy UI elements and progress systems from ark but it did because putting their own spin on things means work.

And most importantly Palworld didn't need to go the human trafficking route to keep the edgy spin of "Pokemon but with guns". That's just a testament to how little the devs behind it care and how ethically bankrupted they are.

Palworld is, just as their other games a passionless cash grab playing on what's popular!

People crying about how it's sticking it to Gamefreak and Nintendo are just delusional.

If you really want to 'hurt' the company, keep pirating and emulating their games, keep playing other titles that don't rely on blatantly plagiarizing Pokemon with their designs and stop engaging with the company and their titles publicly!

Plagiarism and lazily thrown together slop are not the way to go!

Also please stop spreading that they used AI for palworld. We simply don't know and can't prove it! It's enough that they obviously ripped meshes and plagiarized we don't need to blame ai for that. PLUS that the CEO supports Ai should be enough to not want to support the company we really don't need to accuse this specific product (and I am not calling it game, it was thought off and produced as a product and easy to pedal piece of content) of being produced with it, if we can't prove it conclusively.

Gonna say this as someone who has been critical of Game Freak both as a fan and as someone with a Pokémon SPIN for a while now:

Do not support Palworld.

The CEO of Pocket Pair, the game’s studio, openly supports AI and even made a game where making AI-generated art is its main mechanic.

Palworld is not Pocket Pair’s first instance of plagiarism, either. Their previous game, Craftopia, plagiarizes Breath of the Wild, whereas as its upcoming game, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, plagiarizes from independent developer Team Cherry’s game, Hollow Knight.

On top of stolen character models and concepts from fakemon artists, it’s already known that you can put Pals through what is basically slave labor BUT what’s been recently discovered is that the game allows you to capture and sell humans. This has been raising some red flags for black gamers looking into these mechanics, me included, considering this factors into the established slave labor system of Palworld.

TL;DR: I completely understand being tired of Game Freak and the Pokémon Company’s lack of polish over the years, but supporting something that is just as devoid of polish and even more devoid of ingenuity is not the way to make those criticisms clearer. This will only encourage more soullessness in the industry.

I implore you to support other creature collectors with some real passion behind them; I will reblog this post with recommendations shortly!

[gayhenrycreel]

something i would like people to note is the difference between piracy and plagiarism.

plagiarism is taking someone elses work and claiming it as your own, often to make money off it.

piracy is illegally stealing something, without making or spending money. every single pirated copy of anything that ive ever had still credits the creators correctly. books still say who the author is and shows and movies still include the end credits.

people plagiarize because they are assholes.

people pirate because they are too poor to afford all these expensive streaming services, because such services can take media away at any time (piracy is a great way to make sure media does not become lost, google The Mysterious Benedict Society), or because the company that made it is awful and dont deserve money (disney, bbc, netflix, amazon).

both are legally stealing, but law and morality are not the same thing. piracy and plagiarism are very different, and should be treated as such.

[kuramirocket]

Anti stealing and "fixing art"

[kimkaelyn]

Apologies for interrupting your scrolling

This morning some lowlife stole my friend @getstarried artwork, put it through an ai machine, and posted it as their own!

Here is starry’s original post: https://www.tumblr.com/getstarried/753595814239141888/what-it-means-to-be-a-hero

And here is the stolen post: https://www.tumblr.com/9digitalterravisionsblog/756398176113754112

It’ll only take a minute of your time, but please report @9digitalterravisionsblog for spam since only Starry can report for copyright infringement!

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!

UPDATE: THE PERSON’S ACCOUNT HAS BEEN REMOVED!!!

[marzipanandminutiae]

hey AI image blogs that turn replies off on your posts

you're not just plagiarists- you're cowardly plagiarists

if you don't think there's anything wrong with what you're doing, why not let people warn others on the post? or are you hoping nobody notices because, deep down, you DO know that you're full of shit and unwilling to get off your ass and actually create something yourself (or at least promote the work of real artists, not steal it)?

"well it's on my page! well it's in my URL!" shut up. you KNOW people reblog absentmindedly on here all the time, and they look at the notes before they look at OP's blog. don't give me that drivel

[lecoindecachou]

In honor of James Somerton being a topic of discussion again, here's a poll I've been wanting someone to do for a while. Please be honest and reblog if you can, I'm actually really interested in the answer.

[manikas-whims]

thats fucking wild. what other fics were stolen bc i checked zombies blog and i didnt find other fics. Unless thats just me xD i read both fics side by side and just yeah my jaw dropped it was 1:1 verbatim

I'm not sure because the person who informed didn't drop names of the other fics. But acc to them, they've stolen the premise for a Zayne and a Sylus fic from their other Leon fics.

As for His Watchful Eye, yeah..it's as you say, word for word copy-paste 😒

[loveyazy]

just saw someone say that 3 brothers and 3 sisters can still happen but not with Elain, with fucking Gwyn

You guys wanna self-insert so fucking bad. You want to take all the things Elriel has already done and said and use them for your ship, when in reality, all you want is Elriel, but with a character that is your headcanon version of said character.

The coping. The delusions. It's actually kind of sad at this point.

Also, if you think it's "found sisters" and "found brothers" then Nesta wouldn't even be included, it'd be Feyre, Amren, and Mor. Lmao.

Your own theory has holes.

Everyone thinks Gwyn is this super warrior, but between her and Elain, only Elain killed someone, fought off a beast with her own bare foot.

The only instance of Gwyn being any sort of warrior in a fight, was maybe when she slashed someone's shins. That's it. I went through all of ACOSF and that's the only time she lands any sort of blow during the Rite.

So why is it that Elain who has actually done more, actually killed someone, (sorry, no. Nesta does not credit for Hybern when he would've bled out and died either way.), is probably actually training to be a spy (hello her two closest friends, the wraiths???????) get tagged as the weak one, or someone who can't fight, not a warrior, etc., but Gwyn who almost did nothing the entire rite is somehow the baddest bitch to ever live?

What?

I really try to stay away from all the anti stuff but it gets more and more delusional and I am just appalled.

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(

[autolykus]

Source is @/tullygolist on TikTok.

[sylvanus-cypher]

For my money, the worst thing Somerton's ever done was in his response to that one person on twitter who pointed out his plagiarism on Evil Queens and was about to expose it on his other videos

He claimed that this person who was politely pointing out that he'd ripped people off was sending him death threats and trying to find his home address. What else was this supposed to do that incite his fans to violently harass that person? Honest question, what else could possibly be the reason to lie in that specific way?

I know hbomberguy didn't dwell on it too long because he was asked to reference them as little as possible, but beyond the plagiarism, the setting up Nick as a fall guy, the burying of other queer creators, that specific event is probably the most damningly irredeemable thing he's done so far.

Whenever he posts something new, it'll be the first thing I think of; that he's a liar and a thief willing to send unconscionable amounts of harassment to innocent people.

[allegras-sunflower]

Even if she hadn’t intentionally copied Get Him Back did no one on the team notice the similarities? Guts wasnt released so long ago that it could be referential and her fans constantly accuse Olivia Rodrigo of copying. How secure is she in her PR?

I've seen some other blogs saying TS didn't accept editing for this album (which would explain so many songs that feel unfinished) so maybe that's the reason. But, I'll be honest with you, something tells me that's not it.

The truth is TS had a loong history of ripping off other artists and getting away with it. Everybody mentions Lana and Florence as the biggest examples, but I’m old enough to remember a song by Matt Nathanson with the line "I forget about you long enough to forget why I need to" like, ten years before ATW came out. And I know one could argue TS maybe didn't know him and his song... if not for the fact she wrote down the lyrics of another one of his songs on her arm during her Speak Now tour.

TS had been getting away with plagiarism for so long I think she honestly thought people wouldn't notice. And maybe they wouldn't have, hadn't she herself put the focus on posible similitudes between hers and Olivia's songs when she sued her.

Edit: Don’t take my word for it, have some sources.

https://americansongwriter.com/did-taylor-swift-borrow-lyrics-from-matt-nathanson/