Some Bad News, I Think

[lilafilly2.livejournal.com]

 I was on the __vam community page about a month ago and clicked on a fic by jimisgirl4eva. I began reading it and I thought it sounded really familiar, so I came here to search for a fic called "When Worlds Collide" because I just thought it might be it. I went back and forth between chapters until I realized I was reading the same story. I was sure, especially when the author slips and uses "Viggo" at one point during the first chapter. I got pissed and commented several times, although I've checked and I don't think my comments made it, I think they were screened. Would someone here be so kind as to help me find out if this girl on __vam is the same original author *bahama_breeze77 under a different name, please let me know. Or else I would at least like to know it it is being plagiarized.

Here are links to her chapters: 

Chapter 8- http://community.livejournal.com/__vam/3274136.html#cutid1

7- http://jimisgirl4eva.livejournal.com/1630.html#cutid1 You might have to highlight to read all of the ones below.

6- http://jimisgirl4eva.livejournal.com/1479.html#cutid1

5 & 4- http://jimisgirl4eva.livejournal.com/1228.html#cutid1

3 & 2 & 1- http://jimisgirl4eva.livejournal.com/ This is her journal, and you have to highlight for a good long while since it isn't under a cut.

I am very sorry for disturbing you all and taking up so much space, but I couldn't let this piss me off anymore. If this girl is an alias for the original author, I am very very sorry for coming here. Please know that I would not have come if I didn't think it was urgent, and that the __vam community is most likely completely unaware of this. Please don't hold them for blame.

Comments

[alliwantisanelf.livejournal.com]

Actually, I haven't seen anything done about the plagairism at all. jimisgirl4eva still has your story posted on her lj, and as far as I can tell, the moderators at __vam have not removed the story from their archive. All I saw was lilafilly2's post to the community members telling them there was a problem, and a post from the moderator strangelyshaded that referred to "the drama" going on in her community.

The moderator's email is listed as dakillercockroach @ hotmail.com.

I can't tell, but there doesn't seem to be a record of a complaint having been made at stop_plagiarism either. They can help you put pressure on the moderators to ban your plagiarist from posting more copies of your story.

I would like to help you resolve this, but I don't want to interfere if you don't want to have this person stop representing themself as you and copying your writing. I have screencaps of the two stories, and I know people who have worked on this kind of problem before. I need to hear something from you, bahama_breeze77, about whether you want to have this person stopped or not.

For the sake of all writers of original work everywhere, I hope you will agree to do something to prevent jimisgirl4eva from getting away with stealing like this. You can reply here, or feel free to email me at alliwantisanelfforchristmas @ hotmail.com anytime.

Thanks *hugs*

[bahama-breeze77.livejournal.com]

hey, sorry i couldn't get back to you sooner, my homework load has been a bitch! but yeah, I think something should be done. I do want her stopped, I'm just not exactly sure what to do.....probably send a complaint to the stop plagerism website, right? I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing that though...I could sure use your help! Just let me know what needs to be done if you have some spare time...thanks so much!

[alliwantisanelf.livejournal.com]

I need you to give me permission for three things:

1) I need your permission to contact slightlyshaded, who is the moderator for __vam and ask her to remove the story by jimisgirl4eva, because the original story was copied from you. I will ask her to ban jimisgirl4eva from posting in the __vam community again. I'll also ask her to post to her community that this action has been taken and that, as it says in their rules section for the community, plagiarism of other people's work will NOT be tolerated.

2) If the actions in #1 don't get results in about a week, I need your permission to contact the stop_plagiarism moderator for you to let her know of the situation, and to tell her about what I've done in #1 above. I'll request that she look into this, and help us resolve the problem with __vam's moderator.

3) I'll need your permission to share any correspondence between us so that I can show you've approved of me working with you on this problem. This would include sending the screen captures I have that were made by lady_razzle of "When World's Collide" from your lj, so that slightlyshaded and the moderator at stop_plagiarism can see and easily compare them to the screen captures from jimisgirl4eva's lj. It'll save a lot of work, and if either of them is like you are with the homework situation, I'm sure it will make this a lot faster for everyone.



Do you have an email address where you can be contacted privately that I can share with these people? Or if you'd prefer to keep your own email private, you can send the address to me at alliwantisanelfforchristmas @ hotmail.com (take out the spaces in there) and I'll have them email whatever they need to me and I can forward back and forth just to you.

I'd be more than happy to help you. My own stories come out painfully one word at a time with much effort expended, and it irks me greatly to see people get away with this version of stealing. Thank you for being willing to follow up on this!