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saltysweet

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #15 on: 11 March 2019, 05:05:58 pm »
Veg I did a response in this thread a while back. If she's got a professional webmaster you could give him a warning and demand the material removed. They have a reputation to uphold. Even if it's not a pro there are various ways to tackle this. PM me if you need help.
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Brownsugarrr

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #16 on: 12 March 2019, 05:19:06 pm »
How do you find out who the webmaster is?
Some websites don’t have such information published/ available
And if they refuse to remove it there’s not really much you can do

Quote from: saltysweet on 05 February 2019, 05:01:43 pm
I had this...contacted the escort via phone, she ignored, then I contacted her webmaster via his UK company and gave him notice of 14 days to remove the material or I would start charging him £200 per day for use of the plagiarised material and report him to google and have them sort out copyright issues involved. He also stole photos and I told him I will report the image and copyright theft to his other 'straight' web design clients who were listed on his company website. He removed it within 3 days. You can find pre-made legal notices on the web.
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LotusFlower

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #17 on: 12 March 2019, 07:20:27 pm »
Quote from: saltysweet on 11 March 2019, 05:05:58 pm
Veg I did a response in this thread a while back. If she's got a professional webmaster you could give him a warning and demand the material removed. They have a reputation to uphold. Even if it's not a pro there are various ways to tackle this. PM me if you need help.

Nah it's been made on a known site builder. I've thought about I and decided to just let it go: it must be quite shit when you have to physically copy someone else's material to make your own anywhere near decent. And if it's not her, then it will be someone else, then someone else.

I have much more important things to be doing with my time than stressing over who has used my marketing materials as inspiration for their own.

It happened before when I owned a niche business that wasn't SW, another independent opened and copied by business model to the T, right down the the niche products I created and my marketing. I couldn't do anything about it then and learned it was better to stay ahead of the game than be concerned over what my competition were copying from me!

I guess the same applies here!
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amy

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #18 on: 12 March 2019, 07:35:40 pm »
Quote from: Veggiegal on 12 March 2019, 07:20:27 pm
Nah it's been made on a known site builder. I've thought about I and decided to just let it go

Well you could, or you could report it to the hosting provider and get the whole site dumped until the copied content is removed?

Back in the days when the lazy people didn't just stick to AW and not bother with other ads I used to get this at least once every couple of months, and whilst I'd send a polite but curt email first telling them to remove my work from their marketing text I had no trouble at all having the sites taken down if they ignored it. Hosting companies get pretty nervy about breaching copyright laws :).
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #19 on: 13 June 2020, 08:43:56 pm »
I have a bit of an issue and I have no idea how to rectify it.

An SP told me how much she admired my profile and that she was going to use it to shape hers. I asked her not, but, lo and beyond, she’s not only used it as inspiration, she’s ‘stolen’ words, phrases and actual paragraphs from my profile. She’s copied the layout too. In addition, she’s also stolen content from my blog.

I don’t know what to do. I spent a lot of time on my profile and it has garnered a lot of praise and admiration. I feel like she’s stolen a huge part of my identity. She claims to be ‘authentic’ but given she’s using someone else’s words and ideas as her own, she’s fake.

Any advice would be great.

Thank you so much.
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amy

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #20 on: 13 June 2020, 09:47:35 pm »
When you say 'profile', do you mean Adultwork profile? Because if so that's easy - report it with all details (including the copied blog) and they'll ask her to remove it, then if she doesn't they'll take it down. You might have to do it twice if she misses bits, and whether or not you approach her first is up to you.

If it's a personal site then it's slightly more laborious (and at one point I was doing this roughly once a month), but first email her and ask her to change it - be concise and specific and include links and/or screenshots of both sites and give her a week or two to sort it. If she ignore this, report it to her hosting company and they will suspend the site unless it's sorted; they take plagiarism seriously and I've never not had results doing this :).
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« Reply #21 on: 13 June 2020, 10:02:45 pm »
Hi Amy,

Yes, Adultwork. I have reported it, and have screengrabs which I can highlight if they need more proof.

I’ve also written to her and made it clear she’s stolen content from me, and she’s not even attempted to rewrite my words in place. I’ve made it clear that she’s a thief, and that I’ve reported her for plagiarism.

 I’m very niche in my approach and my service, and even though we live in different parts of the country, I am not happy that someone who so blatantly steal another’s words. How can someone claim to be authentic when they’re using someone else’s words?

Fingers crossed it all works out. Thank you for your advice, it’s very much appreciated - I have no-one in the real world to vent to about things like this. However, to be fair, this has been the first kind of issue I’ve faced. Fortunately.

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GucciGang

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #22 on: 13 June 2020, 11:18:23 pm »
Quote from: DarlingS on 13 June 2020, 10:02:45 pm
Hi Amy,

Yes, Adultwork. I have reported it, and have screengrabs which I can highlight if they need more proof.

I’ve also written to her and made it clear she’s stolen content from me, and she’s not even attempted to rewrite my words in place. I’ve made it clear that she’s a thief, and that I’ve reported her for plagiarism.

 I’m very niche in my approach and my service, and even though we live in different parts of the country, I am not happy that someone who so blatantly steal another’s words. How can someone claim to be authentic when they’re using someone else’s words?

Fingers crossed it all works out. Thank you for your advice, it’s very much appreciated - I have no-one in the real world to vent to about things like this. However, to be fair, this has been the first kind of issue I’ve faced. Fortunately.

I had the exact same thing with two older women from Bristol. They have both coped my profile and changed some of the words. I called one up she was in the same hotel as me. She flatly denied it. So sad that people cannot think of something positive about their own character and way of working they have to model themselves on you.
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KBP

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« Reply #23 on: 14 June 2020, 09:37:51 am »
It happened to me too.

The tagline of my Adultwotk profile had been copied by someone in the same area as me. I reported it and it was changed very quickly.

Damn cheek and lack of original thought!
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #24 on: 14 June 2020, 05:02:01 pm »
Lol nobody reads the description. Who cares? Stealing pictures is what is serious.
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #25 on: 14 June 2020, 05:16:01 pm »
Quote from: peaches_xx on 14 June 2020, 05:02:01 pm
Lol nobody reads the description. Who cares? Stealing pictures is what is serious.

I care.

Firstly, it’s theft of intellectual property.

Secondly, I am a niche SP, and my profile is a huge part of my identity and my store front, and unique to the kind of opportunity I provide. It’s not like she stole a few words, she stole huge chunks of it. She claims on her profile that she is authentic, but that’s a lie, given she’s stolen so much of someone else’s profile.

I confronted her, and at first, she tried to deny it and said someone else has written it for her. However, when I told her she had mentioned in a DM to me that she admired my profile and was ‘going to pinch some of it’, that I had screengrabbed her original profile. I also told her I had screengrabbed her profile and highlighted all stolen content and reported her, which I had. At this point, realising the jig was up, she started to delete everything that had been stolen. At this point I retracted my complaint against her.

I then sent her AW’s warning about plagiarism, and told her what else she needed to remove as there were still sentences that had been directly cut & pasted from my profile onto hers.

I have made it very clear to her that I will be keeping an eye on her, and if she does this again, I will report her again. And if she does do it again, or any other SP, I will call them out publicly on my blog - I have a huge readership for it, and the SP will get a lot of grief as a result.

It’s a shame it played out like this. I had contacted her because of a blog she’d posted and I wanted to reach out to her and support her. I didn’t expect my kindness to be abused.
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amy

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #26 on: 14 June 2020, 05:20:23 pm »
Quote from: peaches_xx on 14 June 2020, 05:02:01 pm
Lol nobody reads the description. Who cares? Stealing pictures is what is serious.

I care, because I put a lot of time, effort and work into my advertising text and I don't do that so some lazy thieving cunt can lift it and pass off my hard work as her own. My ads are there to market me not somebody else and I find punters do indeed read it, which is probably why I get largely decent, reliable ones who don't piss me about.

Maybe that's also why I don't spend the whole time slagging them off, like you seem to?
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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #27 on: 14 June 2020, 05:24:16 pm »
Quote from: amy on 14 June 2020, 05:20:23 pm
I care, because I put a lot of time, effort and work into my advertising text and I don't do that so some lazy thieving cunt can lift it and pass off my hard work as her own. My ads are there to market me not somebody else and I find punters do indeed read it, which is probably why I get largely decent, reliable ones who don't piss me about.

Maybe that's also why I don't spend the whole time slagging them off, like you seem to?

Absolutely agree with this. I attract really great men happy to pay my prices, and it is all down to the quality of my profile and blog. My galleries aren’t explicit, men seek me out because of my written content.

A profile is a form of marketing. Why should someone steal something I’ve spent time and effort on.
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« Reply #28 on: 14 June 2020, 07:19:06 pm »
Quote from: Menken on 14 June 2020, 05:24:16 pm
Absolutely agree with this. I attract really great men happy to pay my prices, and it is all down to the quality of my profile and blog. My galleries aren’t explicit, men seek me out because of my written content.

A profile is a form of marketing. Why should someone steal something I’ve spent time and effort on.

Me three. Punters screen just like we do, and an intelligent, informative profile is very attractive to some. The woman they meet should match it.
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KBP

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Re: Plagiarism
« Reply #29 on: 14 June 2020, 07:21:22 pm »
Quote from: peaches_xx on 14 June 2020, 05:02:01 pm
Lol nobody reads the description. Who cares? Stealing pictures is what is serious.


I care. I'm running a business. I don't expect everyone to share my views. Plagiarism in any context is unacceptable.  It shows a lazy attitude towards work, complete lack of respect for other advertisers and for potential clients (some actually do bother to read).

If someone doesn't care about ripping off others work, they likely don't care about coming across as a decent service provider, but let them get on with it. It helps clients separate the wheat from the chaff.
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