#fictofile

[rock-and-compass]

Well, dah Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/11/25/3-signs-youre-experiencing-fictophilia-according-to-a-psychologist/

[moonythejedi394]

stolen content

okay i started this post and then my laptop died before i could save it so i want y’all to know that i am both pissed and frustrated at this point.

a reader on ao3 let me know that intertwined has been reuploaded to fanfics.me; this site is notorious for reposting works and uses ads to make profit. the site is in Russian so I have no idea how to navigate it, but the owner is fully aware of the fact that their site is full of stolen content, they don’t care. 

plenty of people have asked to translate my works on ao3 and so far i have always said yes, but i’ve always asked that whoever does it talk to me through the process and let me know when it was finished, and that they post it back to ao3 and credit me by using the “inspired by work” feature. that’s how translating fics works. it’s not by posting it to whatever site you want without telling me. if the person who did reupload intertwined did ask, they didn’t tell me that they were putting it on another site and they definitely didn’t have my permission to put it there. 

if you’ve asked to translate my work in the past and i’ve said yes, i said yes to putting the translation on ao3 and i asked you to contact me when you post it. i’m delighted that people want to translate my work and i want to be able to continue doing that, but if people are just fucking stealing my stuff and reposting it wherever the hell they want, i’m not going to give anybody permission to do anything with my work. 

it should be a given that you’re not allowed to reupload someone else’s content. at all! wherever! it’s the same as fanart, people, what the fuck! i’m especially hurt that they did this with intertwined bc that piece marked a real change in my writing and, like, my life. i poured my soul into that and for once got real positive feedback (okay introducing mister and mister united states was posted right before then but intertwined got more attention). 

i’m in the process of getting intertwined taken down from the site. if you’ve seen my work on other sites, please let me know; i haven’t consented to put my work anywhere. i’m going now. i’ve exhausted my brain on this subject. 

share this bc more people need to check fanfics.me to see if their content has been stolen. you can use “https://fanfics.me/fictofile/find?str=insert-title-nickname” to search for your work title or username (delete “insert-title-nickname” and replace it with your search term). don’t steal other people’s shit. 

[beneficialaddiction]

Check your Works Y’all!!

Hey All - just got a message that my works are being reposted on Fanfic.me - a Russian site that steals and reposts fic from AO3, ff.net, and other sites. They recommend adding a “Don’t copy to another site” tag to your work if  you don’t want it stolen. I’ve contacted their admin and owner so we’ll see if they take it down.

teedo at AO3 was kind enough to offer the following information.

“Recently the owner of FFM suggested (https://fanfics.me/message399014) using "Don't copy to another site" tag on AO3 in case you don’t want your work to be copied to FFM. If you check AO3 you may notice that this tag has hugely emerged in the recent weeks (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Don't%20copy%20to%20another%20site) but mostly amongst Russian users and there is a good reason for this: the owner of FFM is Russian and announced this tag only in Russian and only at his own blog, so naturally there is no way for non-Russian speaking AO3 users to know about this – albeit non-satisfactory - solution. There are no guaranties that the FFM’s owner won’t change the rules again as has already happened numerous times and that works with this tag won’t be reposted in the future, but for now it’s the only quick and working solution.

Please note that adding this tag won’t work for works that have already been stolen, as only those who have accounts at FFM will be able to delete the work. However, the Russian fandom – except for the owner of FFM – strongly condemns reposts without the consent of the author, so feel free to contact me again providing the links to the stolen works, so we could delete it for you.Please note that FFM also copies your works posted on fanfiction.net, fictionpress.com, fanfiktion.de and likely other web-archives, but for these sites there is no way to forbid such copying in the first place, no tag, nothing at all. We will gladly assist you in deleting fanworks copied to FFM from any other web-archive, the same as we'll gladly do for works copied from AO3.

Additionally FFM’s owner makes money out of reposted free fanworks from numerous Google and Yandex ads on each and every FFM’s page by having people go to this site when searching for fics on Google etc. So we recommend using an Ads Blocker when visiting this site in order to prevent the owner from earning more. Ghostery or Adblock Plus work just fine, but you can use any other Ads Blocker that is convenient to you.

If you or your fellow authors want to check whether any other fanworks were reposted either from AO3 or other web-archive, please follow this link https://fanfics.me/fictofile/find?str=insert-title-nickname, insert the title of your work or your AO3/other web-archive nickname into the field containing the words "insert-title-nickname" and hit "Искать". For works rated mature or explicit you may only see the caption "Текст произведения доступен только зарегистрированным пользователям старше 18 лет" ("The text of the work is available only to registered users over 18 years old"), but FFM users are able to read and download the story.”

STAY SAFE FRIENDS!!

[shaadwynn]

Plagiarism

Fellow fic writers, there's a chance your fic could've been stolen by fanfics.me. This site has a feature that allows users to store any fic from AO3 and other resources publicly and without author's consent. Besides, any fic that's stored there cannot be deleted.

You can check your username here: