Plagiarist mail

[bubosquared]

Subject:  Rewritten story
Date:  Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:33:54 -0000
From:  <addy deleted> (Jo, you want me to give you her addy so you can contact her yourself?)
To:  minerva@femgeeks.net

Hi Melle (hope I can still call you that),

I'm sorry that you felt so offended by my posting of the rewritten 
story. That was definitely not my intention. Neither to you, nor to 
Cassandra. :( I've seen it more as some sort of praise of her work, 
because I really liked her story. I'm also a writer (right now I'm 
busy to translate one of my longer stories into English), but slash 
fiction is a new topic to me, so I thought this "rewriting" might be a 
first step to get into this way of writing and to do an original one 
day. I definitely know that stories are something very personal and 
somehow private, and I absolutely didn't want to take that away from 
Cassandra. I don't think that *I* would feel offended as an author if 
anybody rewrote my story and gave me credits (as long as it would be 
only used on a list like this one). I'd only feel offended if someone 
really "stole" my story or my ideas and claimed that they were from 
him- or herself. But of course everybody might feel about that 
differently.

Anyway I've asked the moderator to delete it from the archive because 
I don't think that I'll be able to contact Cassandra with my bloody 
old e-mail account (as I wrote to the list I've already tried it 
*before* posting the story). And I don't want to offend any future 
members of this list.

By the way, I still love *your* stories. And don't worry, I see no 
need to rewrite one of *them* because I think they are perfect as they 
are. ;) There's no offence intended in this, I really love your 
stories. You're one of the authers who actually got me into this and 
made me think of doing an original myself one day, too.

All the best

Chris

Comments

Will get to you on this tomorrow

[coneyislandbaby]

Am too tired to make rational decisions about this. For now, I'll probably want her email, but let me think on it when I'm awake enough to think rationally.

[zinnea.livejournal.com]

I really like the most recent Garbage album; I'm sure that Shirley and the boys would only take it as the highest compliment if I re-recorded it, changing only a word or two, and released it. Gah!


I've been reading your comments about this whole thing and (not that you need validation from a complete stranger or anything) you are completely right. Plagiarism is wrong--and this is definitely plagiarism--just plain and simple wrong and this girl's apparent inability to understand this marks her as an idiot.

Unless, of course, she really does know what she's done wrong and is simply playing dumb in which case she's nasty.

Anyway, I really wanted to comment just because the things you've had to say have really struck a chord with me because I've had some of my written work stolen from me online and it's made me angry enough to stop putting it out there...so I appreciate seeing someone stick so strongly to her principles.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)