@Myanceris, they aren't really crediting FIA. They ripped the ePUB files off FIA. If you compare the ePUB file from our site to theirs, it's exactly the same. They literally just took the files off our site and reposted them to theirs.
They took fifteen of my stories. :/ @Mynuet, do you know if they will take the stories down with a complaint?
idreamofdraco @ Apr 14, 2015 06:29 am
Tomorrow I'll start going through their search engine for our authors - I'm babysitting most of the day, so I'll have some time to kill. I'll make a list of who I find, and how many stories they've stolen.
Is there anything we can do as a site? I know each person needs to file their own complaint, but maybe there's a way to get in contact with someone on their end and file a complaint as an entire site instead of individually?
EDIT: I've already found 33 authors (other than those above who found themselves) who've had stories stolen!
SempreEadem @ Apr 14, 2015 09:48 pm
Here is what you need to submit in there contacts to get your stories removed, a group for another ship I write for has had success getting their stories taken off. DO NOT give the Ebooks and credit card info ( they claim to be free but are only for the first few days) and don't download anything as the books are loaded with viruses
1. Provide evidence of the authorized person to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
I am your name and AKA pen name. I require you to give me detailed information as to what you require as "evidence." Or I can take screenshots of my fanfiction.net or other site account to send you as proof.
2. Provide sufficient contact information so that we may contact you. You must also include a valid email address.
I have provided my name and a valid email address.
3. You must identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed and including at least one search term under which the material appears in Ebooks Tree search results.
The book "book title" is "the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed."
Here is the search term result link.
Copy the link to your stories off of their site.
4. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
I, your name and AKS pen name, am the complaining party with a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by me, the copyright owner.
5. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
I, your name and AKS pen name, attest under the penalty of perjury that the information in the notification is accurate, and I, the complaining party, am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, as I am the owner.
Signed,
your name and AKS pen name
eveil woman @ Apr 16, 2015 08:55 am
@Myanceris: This is what the AO3 archive said about that question:
“Can the OTW make a copyright claim on behalf of all people whose works have been taken off the AO3?”
Answer: No. We don’t own any rights in your work, and that’s how you’d want it! When you post work on the AO3, you give the AO3 the right to display it, but you don’t give the AO3 any ownership rights at all -- which means the OTW doesn’t have the legal ability to, for example, issue a DMCA takedown notice for all of the AO3-hosted works, as some have suggested.
idreamofdraco @ Apr 16, 2015 02:44 pm
UGH. But thanks so much to everyone who's done the work to post info about it!! :) I found at least a couple of my fics there, and I'll try to go through the steps in the next couple of days. I'll tell y'all what... if the big stock speculation works out for me, then we'll sue them. Otherwise, well, putting together a class action suit would be tricky, to say the least. I can think of some ways it might be done (I guess, given money and time) but not as a fanfic site as a whole. ;)
Anise @ Apr 19, 2015 02:29 pm