Current mood:	exasperated
Current music:	The Magnetic Fields - You Love To Fail

The joys of plagarism
I posted about this on fanficrants, so some of you may be hearing about this twice.

Three and a half years ago (where does the time go?) I wrote 50 Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Hogwarts. A lot of people liked it, sent in suggestions for more (which I compiled, with credit, into appendices), it got Metaquoted and spread around. By far, it's the most popular thing I've ever written, and probably the most popular thing I ever will write.

So, yeah, it gets quoted a lot, and not always by people who know who wrote it. And I don't really mind it being an anonymous forward; that's a special sort of fame all its own.

But the other day I got a PM informing me that someone had copied it and posted it on their fanfiction.net account.

Ok, that? Is not ok. Posting something on an archive under your account is saying it is yours, that you wrote it. If it had been her own list of 50 (or however many) Things, more power to her! It's a pretty inexhaustible concept, and there are always new things to reference, not to mention new canon that's come out since I wrote. But don't post my list on your fanfiction.net page, geez.

So I email her asking her to take it down and she says:

I hav been wondering why do u want me to do that i put the person who wrote
it down so its not like im taking credit so why do i have to take it down lots
of people like it

Misspellings, lack of capitalizations, and lack of punctuation hers.


Um, at least it proves that it's still popular? It's down now at least.