Fanfic and Fakers
Oct. 7th, 2005 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hey.
It's about time I reported on this story...about stories. My mother is the head of E.P.I.C. (The Electronic Publishing Internet Connection), an advocacy group for writers and publishers of e-books. Lately a strange but very potentially damaging problem has come along. Somebody, either one person or a small group, is taking Copyrighted e-books, doing find-and-replace on the names of the characters and submitting them to fanfic groups as their own work. Not only is this plagiarism, it demeans the work of the original author and takes profits from both her and her publisher. E-publishing is still the realm of very small companies...and if legal issues like these crop up, it could kill them and adversely change the publishing industry as a whole.
My mother's publisher, who is affected by this scam, is hunting down the culprit or culprits. I'll be watching this situation develop and get more information when it becomes available.
FP
It's about time I reported on this story...about stories. My mother is the head of E.P.I.C. (The Electronic Publishing Internet Connection), an advocacy group for writers and publishers of e-books. Lately a strange but very potentially damaging problem has come along. Somebody, either one person or a small group, is taking Copyrighted e-books, doing find-and-replace on the names of the characters and submitting them to fanfic groups as their own work. Not only is this plagiarism, it demeans the work of the original author and takes profits from both her and her publisher. E-publishing is still the realm of very small companies...and if legal issues like these crop up, it could kill them and adversely change the publishing industry as a whole.
My mother's publisher, who is affected by this scam, is hunting down the culprit or culprits. I'll be watching this situation develop and get more information when it becomes available.
FP