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Question about posting other's stories

Discussion in 'Announcements and Rules' started by Jeff Roy, Jul 30, 2021.

  1. Jeff Roy

    Jeff Roy I work too much

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    Anyone know what the rules are for posting a story that belongs to someone else, but you are unable to get in touch with them to ask permission to upload their story?

    Are you allowed to post the story as long as you credit them and take it down if they get in touch and ask you to?

    Cause I found a really old, really good, completed HP fanfic that has basically been removed from the internet, and the author hasn't been seen since 2009.
     
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  2. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    You can post links to it... but you can't repost stories without the writer's permission.

    Also https://web.archive.org/ is a valid thing to look at things lost on the internet if you have access to the URLs.
     
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  3. Jeff Roy

    Jeff Roy I work too much

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    I have the story downloaded, so was wondering if I could post it.
    But I can't get get in touch with him to ask, since I don't know if he is using a new online handle.
    He hasn't been seen since 2009.
    The story has been scrubbed from damn near everywhere.
     
  4. Darrenb209

    Darrenb209 Only way to survive is keeping your eyes on screen

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    If someone's gone to that much effort, it was probably for a reason.

    On top of that, there are legal issues these days with posting a story even if you credit it. Actually, especially if you credit it.

    Usernames are one of the things that qualify as "personal data" under the EU GDPR's right to be forgotten. While I don't think it would technically be illegal, it's not worth the potential shitstorm.

    I however, have no connection whatsoever to this site's staff and what they say, goes.
     
  5. Jeff Roy

    Jeff Roy I work too much

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    It was a Fanfiction, just to be clear.
    I am not asking to post a story that is/has/will be for sale.
    It is just an old Harry Potter fic that I read ten years ago, and have been trying to find to reread for about six months.
    It was removed for some reason I am unaware of from the sites it was on and I found a downloaded copy of it on one of my old hard drives.

    Was hoping to edit some spelling errors in it and then post the story as it is.
    If I can't upload it, then that's fine.

    Just figured I would ask if there was a rule against it.
     
  6. Jeff Roy

    Jeff Roy I work too much

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    OH!
    The story is called Harry Potter and the Sword of Gryffindor.
    Written by cloneserpents. If anyone knows who he is.

    There is another HP story with the same name on A03, but that is a different story and nowhere close to as good.
     
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