Reporting plagiarism against cute-stuff-bart/radstuffbart

Jul 20, 2013 19:45

It seems that tumblr user radstuffbart (formerly cute-stuff-bart) had been taking fics from the Merlin fandom and filing the names off for different fandoms. When people reblogged it and accused cute-stuff-bart of plagiarism, ze deleted the fics and changed hir name. However, before ze was able to do that, I screencapped two of the three fics that ( Read more... )

mod: hanfastolfe, 2013, fandom: merlin

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hanfastolfe July 31 2013, 03:11:14 UTC
Hi,

I'll be the mod handling your case. I apologize for the delay in approving your post.

I will do some investigating but I agree that given the after-the-fact deletion of fics, it probably may not be worth digging too much. But please let me know if this person does more! Then this report provides previous evidence of a pattern of plagiarism.

Cheers :)

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fuckyeah July 31 2013, 16:51:22 UTC
I completely understand. I just wanted to document it, especially since one of hir fics was tagged on tumblr with "reupload," which makes me wonder if they've been caught before or not.

I think I might know of one other person who had their fic stolen (and I was told they have screenshots)--should I try to send them your way as well?

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hanfastolfe August 1 2013, 00:55:07 UTC
Please do! Just add another comment. :)

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