In the last few months, several similar things happened - esp. men seem now to have discovered the value of women's creative work for the fandom and shamelessly exploit it. Perhaps the happy innocent times are over... 

This makes me so angry and sad... I know how much work it takes to write fan fiction... and wow. That is just not on! 

She posted yesterday that the thief changed the character names like Molly Hooper -> Vincent Hopper.

Yitzock wrote:

I haven't read the particular work she has been referring to, but I did read both Alone on the Water and Performance in a Leading Role (and some of the Blog of Eugenia Watson, though I have never finished it), so I know how good she is.  
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The work she is refering to is "Performance in a leading role" ;)

gently69 wrote:

Can they track that the fic was first published on AO3?
And... unbelievable.

That was my first thought too, because I wondered how difficult it will be to proof that she wrote it.
 

Last edited by Ivy (March 23, 2016 8:40 am)

What scum.

There are others, see Ariane's experience, see lsit's experience ... men who exploit the fan work of women. (Probably also women can do that, but in all these cases it happened to be men.)

besleybean wrote:

I guess unless people officially copyright their work, there is nothing you can do?

As far as I know there is NO NEED to "copyright" one's work. In the U.S., in France and in Germany every creator of a "work of art" (in the widest sense) automatically has the copyright (droit de la proprieté intéllectuelle, Urheberrecht) (UK law is the one I don't understand, maybe somebody from the UK could pitch in - but I don't think there is a huge difference in the basic principle). Creating something is enough, at least in theory. In practice it will be useful to be able to prove that one is the creator - for example by keeping drafts and notes of the process. Or depositing a copy of your work with a lawyer.