liz_marcs | *jaw drop* Massive Plagiarism Case *jaw drop*

This is the single biggest case of mass plagiarism I've ever seen.

According to reports, someone going by the name of Spikes Fic or Spikes Baby has been plagiarizing writers, iconners, and vidders for an insanely long time. Even drabbles have been filched and, in one case, a professionally published poem.

At the moment, it appears that Spike-centric writers have been the ones hardest hit by this. Although I have to wonder about anyone filching stories from the better-known Spike writers because, as I pointed out in my helpful instructions on how to plagiarize the smart way, this definitely falls under the "dumb plagiarist's rule."

Please read all of the related posts at

stop_plagiarism. It appears the authors and the community is already on the case.

However, I highly recommend following all the links to the plagiarizer (the hell with "alleged" because there are way too many people screaming bloody murder right now...and rightfully so) and nosing around as best you can. As I said, Spike writers appear to be the hardest hit, but a look-round from other quarters of Buffy fandom would not go amiss.

Sadly, I'm at work right now and can't do my own snooping. I will certainly be looking around tonight.

Even if you aren't affected, I do highly recommend following this plagiarism case. It promises to be a most fascinating one, especially given the depth, bredth, and length of time the plagiarist has been active.

Please join me in basking in the batshit. For truly, there are no other words to describe this plagiarizer.

My sympathy goes out to all the writers, iconners, and vidders who've been hit by the perp.

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Yes, it's a huge case. When I headed to skim the plagiarist's site for titles I would recognize so I could tell the authors, I recognized one only because I had seen the title earlier that day, nominated at an awards site.

Sounds at this point that all but six or seven of the titles have been identified as to actual author. Definitely people need to keep checking the list until they've all been found.

I tried looking but I found the bloopdiary or whatever it is impossible to read. Some frames cover up other frames (on my computer anyway) and I can't find anything useful.

stop_plagiarism seems to be building a pretty comprehensive list. I'd suggest keeping an eye on the three posts I've linked to by proxy.

I know they seem to have found other sites she/he has posted to.

Good luck!

Yeah, the pink and black eensy text is singularly unreadable. Do you have Firefox? Maybe reading on the "no style" viewing option would limit some of the hindrances to reading.

Damn, but that's one of the ugliest, most poorly designed sites I've ever seen.

I'm just...

See, when I saw this case, I went link this: o_0

Then my mind snapped.

What's stunning is that she's been getting away with this for awhile. I'm just stunned because she's stolen from some fairly well-known BNW (big name writers...as opposed to big name fan) in the Spike-centric fanfic community.

This is what boggles me to no end.

What's stunning is that she's been getting away with this for awhile. I'm just stunned because she's stolen from some fairly well-known BNW (big name writers...as opposed to big name fan) in the Spike-centric fanfic community.
You know, I wonder if there's more of a danger of plagiarism, and of ignorant plagiarists taking the works of what we think of as big name writers, because there's a kind of closed off aspect to much of fanfiction based fandom happening solely at LiveJournal.

We don't have the same resources of people reading and/or crossposting to lots of lists, so that even if we ourselves don't read a particular pairing, we can recognize a commonly-read and feedbacked title from a list or a board that we frequent. When I came into fandom proper in the fall of 2003, I could recognize a number of stories and match them with their authors just by virtue of list membership. Now on LiveJournal, my reading list is fairly tailored, and I might have no idea, upon seeing a title and a well-written fic, that the story has been stolen because I have somehow missed that segment of fandom on LiveJournal or elsewehre.

The plagiarist is at another blog host, and my guess is that many of the people at that host don't read beyond it, the same way those of us who hang our hats around LJ often miss things that aren't in the LJ format.

Of course this makes things like the

su_herald even more important, to increase recognition and archive the sense of who is writing what. Awards sites too, can play a role here -- as I mentioned, I recognized the title of

myfeetshowit's drabble because early in the day I had checked out the nominees at the Love's Bitch Awards (Spike-centered).

As fandom gets more segmented, I think we may have to be more vigilant about these sorts of cases.

Good lord. Why can't she write her own fic like the rest of us. And she old too. Its not like your dealing with a twelve year old. She looks about twenty from her journal pictures.

I know I'm completely boggled and at a loss.

Its just really really sad...

I must admit, I never understood the point of Fanfic plagerisation. I mean, academic... yeah, to get the marks and to save you doing work. I get that. (Don't agree but I understand.) Plaugeriation to publishing something I even get, if it means you get a bit of money out of it. But fanfic? All people get out of fanfic is satisfaction and, if you're big, a bit of fame. I suppose you'd get the latter but the former? It'd all be empty. I mean, yeah you're getting people saying 'wow! What a brilliant fic! You are such a cool writer!' but you'd always know you're not, 'cos you weren't the one who wrote it. So... why? I suppose it's for a bit of attention, and a bit of praise, no matter how false it truly is but it seems, on some level, deeply, deeply sad...

I saw this case posed at

open_on_sunday. Just unbelieveable.

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