PLAGIARISM - Rex's Hit List

Originally posted by Tela
Maybe it would be better for those who write fanfics here to give a disclaimer.

My god....that's the first post of Tela's I've seen in quite a while!

Originally posted by Tela
Maybe it would be better for those who write fanfics here to give a disclaimer.

Nah, I don't think it's really that necessary on here as everyone knows that they don't own characters that already exist.

Disclaimers, in my opinion, are not needed for fan fics. It's common sense that says that I did not invent Count Dooku, or whatherface did not make Harry Potter...and so on.

Originally posted by Captain REX
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Dublecee - Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dosotevsky (1821-1881) - Moskow, Russia[/B]

What kind of reject would try to pass this novel off as his own and actually think he would get away with it?

That one. He's a 12-year-old from Canada.

Originally posted by Captain REX
That one. He's a 12-year-old from Canada.

Canada? Makes sense. j/k

Originally posted by ResubianNushi
Canada? Makes sense. j/k

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Hence the j/k. 😐

Aah, so this is where you moderate Rex! 😈

Technically, I moderate everywhere, but this is where I have the power to silence fools. 😄

Rex, do you delete the threads people post when they've plagiarised?

Should I?

Just added a person.

yeah, you should.
it sickens me that people dare to plagerize. people work hard in what they do, and they got people who dare take their hard work.

Hey Rex, since this is your department (I like what you've done with the place, got that whole aura of death and destruction happening 😈 ).....dammit, now Ive forgotten what I was asking..

..Oh yeah, if you were to use parts from another source in a fanfic, does that count as plagiarism?

Example....say you were writing a crossover kind of story, where certain parts from a movie/story have to be pretty much copied straight over to give it that continuing feel, can you do that? Do you need a reference?

If you credit the person somewhere, it's fine.

And yes, we have a bit of D&D here... 😄 No, not Dungeons and Dragons...

In the case of fanfics of movies, though...I think it's pretty obvious that none of us invented Star Wars or Jedi, or the Matrix, or Middle-Earth, or whatever.

Originally posted by Captain REX
If you credit the person somewhere, it's fine.

And yes, we have a bit of D&D here... 😄 No, not Dungeons and Dragons...

In the case of fanfics of movies, though...I think it's pretty obvious that none of us invented Star Wars or Jedi, or the Matrix, or Middle-Earth, or whatever.

Actually, I invented all of those. 😖hifty: 😛

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Hey there J.R.R. Lucas Walchowski! 😄

Originally posted by Captain REX
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Hey there J.R.R. Lucas Walchowski! 😄

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Originally posted by Captain REX
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Hey there J.R.R. Lucas Walchowski! 😄

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Originally posted by Lana
Hey, I wrote a 150 page Harry Potter fanfic when I was in 9th grade 😛

Fanfics are in a very grey area when it comes to plagiarism. There are certain authors that, if they find fanfiction based on their works, request that it be removed. When I post fanfics (particularly when I post on fanfiction.net because they're sticklers for this) I generally include a disclaimer stating that the basic ideas and pre-existing characters I didn't invent and don't belong to me, but anything original that's in the story IS mine.

Same thing for me and The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants. I remade another story, in French, stating that the basic ideas aren't mine, but this is about four female Sith (hence the traduced title Four Sith and a pair of jeans, from Quatre Siths et un jean in french), three of them fighting on different planets (Kashyyyk, Dantooine and Nar Shaddaa) and the fourth stays on Alderaan. The entire story is set 2,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. Don't try to find it on the site, though.