Reply To: YouTube Plagiarism

[Shorngirl]

To be honest, it was very easy. All I needed to do was provide a link to the story in question on this site. I presume the auditors at Youtube were astute enough to realize that the narration was word for word with what was written in my work. The fact that the posting date on all of the work predated the videos by at least two years, probably made their decision a simple one. All in all, Six stories were plagiarized and all six were removed immediately. I’m not sure whether a copyright strike was issued, but to be fair, someone else making money from my efforts just rubbed me the wrong way. It’s one thing to see my stories on other free web sites, but YouTube is a money making enterprise for the creators and that’s not okay. If they’re not creative enough to write their own material, then they shouldn’t be posting. I doubt this individual will be harvesting from here any time soon, if ever.
Claire