Stolen reviews
Jun. 20th, 2014 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akinoameAll right, finally ready to talk more publically about what got me so upset at the beginning of the month (as seen in these three posts).
At the beginning of the month, I discovered that my W.I.T.C.H. reviews had been copied and pasted wholesale to a deviantART community, without my permission. At first, I contacted the person who did so and asked them to take down my reviews. The response was that while this person was sorry and promised not to do so again (all of the long-form reviews from season 1 had been copy-pasted), they "[could not] find the 'delete' button" and thus couldn't take down the reviews from their groups. When I finally hit on the realization that my reviews were copied onto other communites as well, I looked into their other groups and found five in all with my reviews.
So at that point, I was freaking out. Shaun helped on plurk by recruiting friends to report the reviews on each community, since it was a violation of the terms of service by posting someone else's work without their permission (even if you put a note saying who it belongs to, you have to ask permission), and I took the first community to the help desk. It...took a while. To put it lightly. I really didn't have any idea what I was doing and was really freaking out, so I wasn't in the best state of mind.
Finally, someone got back to me, forwarded it to copyright issues, and last night, I affirmed that I was the original writer, that my reviews were reposted without permission, and I was issuing a DMCA takedown (which are the most terrifying words in the universe to a fan). But it was my friend this time, and today, I found that the first community finally had my reviews taken down.
So...one down. Four more to go.
At the beginning of the month, I discovered that my W.I.T.C.H. reviews had been copied and pasted wholesale to a deviantART community, without my permission. At first, I contacted the person who did so and asked them to take down my reviews. The response was that while this person was sorry and promised not to do so again (all of the long-form reviews from season 1 had been copy-pasted), they "[could not] find the 'delete' button" and thus couldn't take down the reviews from their groups. When I finally hit on the realization that my reviews were copied onto other communites as well, I looked into their other groups and found five in all with my reviews.
So at that point, I was freaking out. Shaun helped on plurk by recruiting friends to report the reviews on each community, since it was a violation of the terms of service by posting someone else's work without their permission (even if you put a note saying who it belongs to, you have to ask permission), and I took the first community to the help desk. It...took a while. To put it lightly. I really didn't have any idea what I was doing and was really freaking out, so I wasn't in the best state of mind.
Finally, someone got back to me, forwarded it to copyright issues, and last night, I affirmed that I was the original writer, that my reviews were reposted without permission, and I was issuing a DMCA takedown (which are the most terrifying words in the universe to a fan). But it was my friend this time, and today, I found that the first community finally had my reviews taken down.
So...one down. Four more to go.