This still amuses me. Free The LiveJournal Three! Possible because it's late and I'm immresed in my IRA research and well, I'm trying to make sense of it all and it's nice to have things like this to lugh about so there.
Hey... (I have a very nifty stat thingy... I check it often... Interesting thread going on btw...)(*gr* tenth time to try to post.)
Not sure if in the steal thing it's clear, but there are large segments of the Harry Potter fandom (which contain the more famous authors like Cassandra Claire and Rhysenn and I believe Heidi Tandy who all left in protest of Cassie being kicked off while saying on list that they wrote in similar styles to Cassie so they feared being booted next.) who believe in the "pick-and-choose" method of writing to quote some one on the Fandom Ethical and Legal Discussion Board (http://www.voy.com/36422/). This style of writing tends to be focused around giving "tributes" to other writers by incorporating their work verbatim into your story and having the reader try to guess where. IE Often there is no citation, improper citation or the citation is lacking and not phyically on the story.
In the case of Cassandra Claire, the story is that some person reported her to the staff of FanFiction.Net and included page # from the book, the author name, the book title and than showed the staff Cassie's work, the "citation" and matched up the passages. Cassie had several pages (Two from the original plagiarism accusation submitted) matching verbatim that story except for basic changes such as eye color, and names. The citation was listed as an author she couldn't remember and than she cited the WRONG book.
The person who submitted the work also offered to find other passages that she knew Cassie and lifted from. This wasn't really needed because the evidence was so heavy in those two pages from what I understand. The person who submitted the original complaint and I started e-mailing (And I've since fallen out of contact because I've been lazy and busy with real life.) and she showed me several more pages nearly verbatim that were taken from the book which Cassie cited as the wrong book with no author. The person also sent me lines of dailogue from various shows that Cassie had inserted into her stories. These lines were from such shows as Red Dwarf and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. They wweren't just one or two lines. They were whole seens of dialogue.
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Not sure if in the steal thing it's clear, but there are large segments of the Harry Potter fandom (which contain the more famous authors like Cassandra Claire and Rhysenn and I believe Heidi Tandy who all left in protest of Cassie being kicked off while saying on list that they wrote in similar styles to Cassie so they feared being booted next.) who believe in the "pick-and-choose" method of writing to quote some one on the Fandom Ethical and Legal Discussion Board (http://www.voy.com/36422/). This style of writing tends to be focused around giving "tributes" to other writers by incorporating their work verbatim into your story and having the reader try to guess where. IE Often there is no citation, improper citation or the citation is lacking and not phyically on the story.
In the case of Cassandra Claire, the story is that some person reported her to the staff of FanFiction.Net and included page # from the book, the author name, the book title and than showed the staff Cassie's work, the "citation" and matched up the passages. Cassie had several pages (Two from the original plagiarism accusation submitted) matching verbatim that story except for basic changes such as eye color, and names. The citation was listed as an author she couldn't remember and than she cited the WRONG book.
The person who submitted the work also offered to find other passages that she knew Cassie and lifted from. This wasn't really needed because the evidence was so heavy in those two pages from what I understand. The person who submitted the original complaint and I started e-mailing (And I've since fallen out of contact because I've been lazy and busy with real life.) and she showed me several more pages nearly verbatim that were taken from the book which Cassie cited as the wrong book with no author. The person also sent me lines of dailogue from various shows that Cassie had inserted into her stories. These lines were from such shows as Red Dwarf and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. They wweren't just one or two lines. They were whole seens of dialogue.