I checked this morning and all of my stolen stuff is gone from the website, so they do at least respond to removal requests, I'll give them that. But that's ALL I'll give them!
I've been fortunate in the Tolkien fandom... no plagiarizing from anyone that I know of (and I don't really consider this situation plagiarizing, since the stories did have a link to my LJ as the source. To me plagiarizing is stealing and claiming it's your own). But back when I was active in the Adam-12 fandom, there was a BNF who ran a huge website about the show and he blatantly copy/pasted my actor bios. It took about 16 email exchanges with that bullheaded idiot before he finally agreed to credit the source. I wanted them taken down completely but sometimes you have to be happy with a compromise. Ironically, he lost the entire domain anyway because Universal Studios sued him when he started using it to raise money. He also got sued by Kent McCord for using his photos without authorization. The guy (the site owner, not McCord!) was an impossible jerk.
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Date: 2014-10-16 12:08 pm (UTC)I've been fortunate in the Tolkien fandom... no plagiarizing from anyone that I know of (and I don't really consider this situation plagiarizing, since the stories did have a link to my LJ as the source. To me plagiarizing is stealing and claiming it's your own). But back when I was active in the Adam-12 fandom, there was a BNF who ran a huge website about the show and he blatantly copy/pasted my actor bios. It took about 16 email exchanges with that bullheaded idiot before he finally agreed to credit the source. I wanted them taken down completely but sometimes you have to be happy with a compromise. Ironically, he lost the entire domain anyway because Universal Studios sued him when he started using it to raise money. He also got sued by Kent McCord for using his photos without authorization. The guy (the site owner, not McCord!) was an impossible jerk.