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I would like to bring attention to something that I never thought that I would personally come across and that is plagiarism in the Teen Wolf fandom. Not only that, but blatant copying of another TW work itself. Same pairing, same plotline, same plot twists, same dialogue. The only difference? It…
If you’re dissatisfied with AO3’s move, go ahead and engage them in further conversation. AO3’s run by people who are fans as well as professionals; you can totally have a dialogue with them.
I’m torn about this, myself. I know that I’d feel uncomfortable, if I were in the same place. But on the other hand, when you consider fanworks to be legitimate transformative works, then that implies that other fan authors have the same right to fanfic your works, characters and setting as you have to fanfic the original.
I suppose it depends on whether you feel that it would be legitimate if somebody took the original work and copied it word-for-word and only changed the genders would be fair game as fanfic. Granted, I have seen people actually DO this (oh, ff.net)…but it is okay or not? Dunno. Pretty sure it wouldn’t be defensible in a copyright infringement lawsuit.
So if it were me, I’d want to talk to AO3 further about whether this is the right move, and maybe about what policy should be for a situation like this.
On a pure fan-to-fan, person-to-person position, yeah, that was really rude. I mean, if they were going to do it anyway, then why the hell did they even bother to ask?
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