I suppose it's up for users to magically figure it out in order to report it idk. There's so many niche websites out there keeping track of English ones alone is hard enough as it is lol.
The same way the current plagarism rules work? The mods are human beings, not law-robots that can be blinded under the auspices of technically following the rules. If posters suspect something is a repost, they'll report it, the mods will investigate, and make a decision.
My personal estimate a few years ago was the internet having a halflife of 10-15 years. I guess I was being slightly optimistic.
You can probably screenshot them.
Fics have disappeared on my watch that have only ever been posted on one site. I'm feeling paranoid about this...
I would PM a mod or make a new thread in rules.
Discord doesn't host images for very long, they'll break.
Yeah I've seen you post them before kinda strange mods didn't look at them
Ah, so it's not a response to anything, just a bizarre act of excessive self-censorship. Well, uh... it's weird. I know a whole site not hidden behind registration where there are not only translations of fanfics but also original works, not only temporary paywalls but also permanently closed paid chapters. And so if they don't have much of a problem, why it would be a problem for QQ I have no idea.
I was actually reading one of those when this notification came in. I think your Harry Potter one already has the permissions in the first chapter.
It's not censorship to disallow plagiarism. You already couldn't just post someone else's work without permission.
It's not that Discord stops hosting them, its that the links stop connecting to discord, causing the images to break (as far as I am aware).
I'd recommend both of Fichub and FanFicFare (requires some configuration to also keep images) for acquiring & keeping local copies.
Yeah, Spacebattles has always required permissions, so I made sure to get all the screenshots I needed on day one. On SB, all my threads have the pictures of my conversations with the authors right at the end of the first chapter. Since QQ didn't require them before, I didn't bother posting them here. So yeah, that's on me.
Pretty sure this is not true; under US copyright law at least, a fanfic would be a derivative work and derivative works are copyrightable; technically, all the aspects of a derivative work that are added to the original work are what's considered a new copyrightable work. (Source: google "derivative work US copyright law" and one of the top results will be a copyright office circular.)
It's only plagiarism if it isn't credited and isn't meaningfully modified. (That in itself isn't an argument for not retelling or sharing a story though. Copyright legal liability nonsense aside.)
That depends a lot on the translator's approach and on the difference between the source & target cultures and whether the translator bothers to explain things or not.
Posting a thread in either Announcements and Rules or in Appeals with the proofs should do it. Keep in mind, they need to be verifiable. If it's just a screenshot of a private conversation, that does not meet the requirement as it's extremely easy to fake. That might get adjusted though, as seems appropriate. New subrule, some tuning is to be expected.
Are you really suggesting that a non-commercial translation with the author's name/link to the original work should be considered plagiarism?
Fuck man, I was enjoying your translations now, I and you have been shafted
Plagiarism is the use of someone else's work without permission, whether or not you credit them is irrelevant.
Taking someone else's work without permission is literally the definition of plagiarism, whether you're making money or not is not relevant.
That's not what google tells me about the definition of plagiarism. Mind sharing a link to where you got your definition?
What you're describing is along the lines of copyright infringement. Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's work. Different things. If you give the original author credit then it cannot be plagiarism.
I feel you.