Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

"Evil Legolas" has me CACKLING

I’m sorry, hehe.. she WHAT⁉️

was anyone gonna tell me that Flashpoint Joker Martha killed Alfred, or was I just supposed to find that out for myself??

This is hysterical and I am crying. Definitely going in my Top 3 Cracky Headcanons., right next to Coulson/Fury forming the Avengers for the purpose of finding friends for their baby assassin Natasha

Danny, Dani, and Dan get deaged by a wish gone wrong. They get picked up by a loser in a furry costume.

Batman, having only been on scene for about half a year, still making mistakes and eating shit when he doesn't stick the landing, finds the trio of babies stashed away in an alley.

Batman's not doing so hot; he'd just fought a new rogue with strange abilities and only barely won thanks to being thrown through a case of occult antiques in the museum. In the end he'd managed to restrain the being by opening an ancient vase and imprisoning the villain in it.

The Dracula-themed villain had been a very difficult fight, and said fight had only proved to him that he had to train more. Get better. He was on his way home, actually.

Clearly someone left them there to pick them up later, given that there's a diaper bag with all of their names on it.

He drops them off at a baby drop-off and goes about his night.

Except he got attached.

The very next day he's so overcome with guilt he immediately looks into being a foster father for them. The process takes awhile, but he gets to foster them.

So by the time Dick comes into the picture, there's already three hellions toddling around, and he gets to be a big brother far sooner.

Also, the noise the toddlers produce helps him ease into life at the manor.

the first three ducks are definitely named after the other Robin boys. he doesn't dare name any of them Cass or Steph out of fear they may take over the entire farm

when i say that tim drake should fuck off to live on a farm and have a flock of ducks just for funsies i also implie that the ducks have to have the most stupid goofy names, otherwise it's all pointless

Anybody know any good Batman/BtVS crossovers?

Specifically any post-UtRH and -season 6 fics where Buffy and Jason interact. Not necessarily looking for a romantic ship, I just really really really wanna see these two not-dead kids having a snark-off about crawling out of their own graves. Because, yeah, both universes have plenty of characters coming back to life, but reverse grave digging seems to be distinctive to these two and they could have a lot of fun making their (extended) families uncomfortable with all the dead jokes they’d probably make