SalivaSpittingWorm
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Good luck! I hope Amazon starts checking out the plagiarist too.
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TheEldritchGod
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No no no...
TELL THEM TO KEEP IT UP, BUT SEND YOU THE MONEY AS WELL AS ANY MONEY THE SCAMMERS MADE BEFORE.
Erios909
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Amazon keeps the money the scammers made for themselves.
NobleTalon
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This is Amazon's response that I just received :
Hello,
We received the information you submitted for the following book(s):
B0CKTW56XM
We need some additional time to review everything. We'll be in touch within 5 business days. We appreciate your patience.
Thanks for using Amazon KDP.
Did you get the same ? Or should I take the next step ? 8h vs 5days seems like a lot
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Not the same, no. Need to wait and see how things go. Nothing too troublesome I think
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What did you send them when you made the report, and what did they answer ? Maybe I need to make another report.
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A link to my story on Royal Road and told them that I was the Original Author. They said it would 1-2 days to check and later that day I got email that it got removed.
melchi
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I'm in the same boat...
this appears to be https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15594/the-mad-one
this appears to be https://fore-lore.com/reader/?page=41.1.41-prologue-the-race-of-intellectuals-
looks to be
RE: Reality Smuggler (R-18)
A young man full of ambition finds himself in the possession of a dark artifact that can allow him to travel through different realities: A post-apocalyptic futuristic world filled with genetically enhanced beautiful humans and man-eating monsters. A Steampunk world filled with strange...
this one is: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/228631/how-can-i-save-the-world-if-im-no-longer-the-hero/
is this one. https://www.scribblehub.com/series/574906/magical-giants-changed-world/
Figured I'd add some to the list as well.
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Benson
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The og author of the first one seems to have been inactive for over a year, so I don't think contacting them will do anything.
I do not have an account for the fore lore one, if possible can you write the author?
melchi
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I think Amazon owes you some money then.
They changed then me to "world of moral inversion" There is some guy named Toshi... sus....
Unless EldritchGod's real name is Darlene.
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TheEldritchGod
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No. Name is not Darlene.
However, I have never had so much of a pain in the ass to get a sample of the damn work.
melchi
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It takes a couple clicks. I found a lot more potentially stolen works. Someone once mentioned searching amazon for the genres that your story has is a good way to see if it is pirated. Though as benson said they are being less obvious with it now.
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Well, I now joined the club! https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Artifac...ial-ebook/dp/B0CKRSFQL2/ref=monarch_sidesheet.
My novel is Reality Smuggler, and yeah, it was also incomplete.
The sad sack of shit stole my work, 1-to-1.
How fun.
My novel is Reality Smuggler, and yeah, it was also incomplete.
The sad sack of shit stole my work, 1-to-1.
How fun.
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Yeah, its dumb how they just casually steal other people's work. What miserable people that must be, but hey, we can shit in their meal by getting them DMCA'ed so that's fun. Even though they most likely won't care too much.
TheEldritchGod
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Don't have an Amazon account.
melchi
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TheEldritchGod
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That is verbatim.
The part that annoys me is, if the person ASKED, I don't think I'd have had a problem.
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For anyone who got his or her novel stolen :
- report it asap to Amazon. Benson explained the steps to follow here :
- gather all the links to the stolen novels and send a DMCA takedown notice to google : https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?visit_id=638349830794598836-164145888&rd=1
- if you have a lawyer, I would recommend you contact him asap so he can advise you on what to do in your situation, as the legal procedures change greatly depending on the country you're living in. I explained everything in more details in this post, but here's a short tl;dr of what my lawyer said :
If I decide to take legal action, I can get a court order within three months that would allow me to get the scammer's banking information from Amazon. This same court order would also allow me to require the scammer's personal info from whatever payment service he used to cash in the money he got from Amazon (PayPal, Skrill, etc.). That's the good news.
Now, the bad news. My lawyer also told me that, while it was my right to take legal action, the result would depend entirely on the country the scammer comes from. For example, if he's scamming people from a small village deep within a 3rd world country, there's nothing I (nor the justice system as a whole) can do. So in the end, taking legal action would have no other effect than potentially scaring him away from my novel, showing him that I won't let him do whatever he pleases with my work.
So, to make it short, it would be a lot of time and money spent for little result. You have to judge whether the copyright of your novel is worth it, or not. If your novel brings you a lot of money and you're making a living from it, you should definitely consider the legal route.
It's not the case for me, but I still asked my lawyer to prepare the necessary procedures. I'm waiting to see whether I take it to court or not.
Tbh I don't even care about the money at this point, I just want to put a name and a visage on the piece of sht who stole my novel. But that's just me. From an external point of view, I'm just being stubborn. I'm just an amateur author who writes as a hobby, anyone would say that it's not worth wasting money on legal fees for a small web novel I'm writing during my free time, and the 'logical' part of me agrees with that.
- lastly, you can try to make things harder for scammers to steal your work. Hide sentences unrelated to your story within each chapter, make your writing style harder to be processed by paraphrasing AIs, be sure to include your contact info in the synopsis, etc. That's what I'll do from now on.
- report it asap to Amazon. Benson explained the steps to follow here :
- gather all the links to the stolen novels and send a DMCA takedown notice to google : https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?visit_id=638349830794598836-164145888&rd=1
- if you have a lawyer, I would recommend you contact him asap so he can advise you on what to do in your situation, as the legal procedures change greatly depending on the country you're living in. I explained everything in more details in this post, but here's a short tl;dr of what my lawyer said :
If I decide to take legal action, I can get a court order within three months that would allow me to get the scammer's banking information from Amazon. This same court order would also allow me to require the scammer's personal info from whatever payment service he used to cash in the money he got from Amazon (PayPal, Skrill, etc.). That's the good news.
Now, the bad news. My lawyer also told me that, while it was my right to take legal action, the result would depend entirely on the country the scammer comes from. For example, if he's scamming people from a small village deep within a 3rd world country, there's nothing I (nor the justice system as a whole) can do. So in the end, taking legal action would have no other effect than potentially scaring him away from my novel, showing him that I won't let him do whatever he pleases with my work.
So, to make it short, it would be a lot of time and money spent for little result. You have to judge whether the copyright of your novel is worth it, or not. If your novel brings you a lot of money and you're making a living from it, you should definitely consider the legal route.
It's not the case for me, but I still asked my lawyer to prepare the necessary procedures. I'm waiting to see whether I take it to court or not.
Tbh I don't even care about the money at this point, I just want to put a name and a visage on the piece of sht who stole my novel. But that's just me. From an external point of view, I'm just being stubborn. I'm just an amateur author who writes as a hobby, anyone would say that it's not worth wasting money on legal fees for a small web novel I'm writing during my free time, and the 'logical' part of me agrees with that.
- lastly, you can try to make things harder for scammers to steal your work. Hide sentences unrelated to your story within each chapter, make your writing style harder to be processed by paraphrasing AIs, be sure to include your contact info in the synopsis, etc. That's what I'll do from now on.
TsumiHokiro
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Just a musing of mine but that screenshot of the "Kindle Unlimited", "subscribers read for free" just stuck to my mind.
I wonder how much Amazon makes money from these stolen novels, which might or might not be sold, but are read by subscribers of their service?
I wonder how much Amazon makes money from these stolen novels, which might or might not be sold, but are read by subscribers of their service?
