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what do you do when you're pretty damn sure you've been plagiarized?

― jess, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's extra fun because i'm pretty sure i've been plagiarized by the editor which published the initial piece for another review.

― jess, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i should also note that i'm not really -that- angry, and it's actually - for someone who thinks his writing is a big pile of pig shit - vaguely flattering.

― jess, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

contact angela - www.writersweekly.com

― Queen G, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess, your writing is swell, and plagiarism totally sucks. If you're friendly with the plagiarist in question, send him/her an email: "hey, doesn't this piece look kind of familiar to you?" If you're not especially friendly with him/her, send a note to the plagiarized piece's editor: "I'm actually sort of flattered, but I still thought you might like to know that I wrote the attached and your writer published it elsewhere..."

― Douglas, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walk backwards to make sure I'm not ripping anyone off.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once i found a profile I wrote for a band on some e-zine, with another guys byline by it. I wrote the guy a pretty friendly email saying, 'hey that's not cool.' And reminded him that not only did he deny me credit for my piece but that piece had been published by Ticketmaster (tm) and they might have something to say about it. He wrote me back this really abusive email, accused me of trying to make money of others' work and then blocked my server so I couldn't write him back. Nutcase.

― Samantha, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've found my AMG reviews popping up all different places, but it's not so much plagiarism as abuse of source code, since they just paste a copy of the whole page into their own site. And most other spots I've seen my reviews around, they always include my name, so hurrah.

Dan's strategy is utterly wonderful, though hauntingly familiar somehow.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got publishers lined up around the block as I type.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A friend of mine nicked a line from my story, but I am almost positive he wasn't aware of the fact. He probably had it going 'round in his head and didn't realize he'd first seen it in muh story. The line was: "This is an account with no dialogue."

― Mandee, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, sympathies, Jess. But is it online or print media? If the former, you could likely get it removed if that was your goal. If the latter, it may be difficult to get a 'corrections' note or Letter to the Editor in, given the source of the plagiarism.

Some kid in the U.S. midwest stole the first paragraph of a Pitchfork review and used it as the introduction to his college newspaper review. A Pitchfork reader recognized it and ratted him out. And apparently some time back someone was using entire Pitchfork articles for their Amazon.com reviews.

― Dare, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I plagiarize you all every day on ILx

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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