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thiefhellivator · 3 months

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STAYEducated: Plagiarism 101

What is plagiarism?

“Presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement." - University of Oxford

Reposting content instead of reblogging/retweeting/sharing it.

Reposting content without asking the original creator for permission, or doing so even if they deny permission.

Sharing or reposting content without giving full, proper credit to the original creator.

Taking someone else's original work and claiming it is your own creation or content.

Why is plagiarism bad?

Plagiarism is unethical. While most general content plagiarism will not be pursued legally, plagiarism is lazy, demoralising, disrespectful and selfish.

Someone whose content is frequently stolen might be dissuaded from creating content at all, or might choose to make their content more inaccessible. It also emotionally harms the content creator.

Plagiarism can often have pretty serious consequences, even if you weren't maliciously plagiarising. Your account could be deleted, your details banned from creating further accounts, certain features on your account(s) being blocked, and it could garner you an ugly reputation within your community which can stick around for a long time.

Plagiarism essentially tells the original creator you don't respect them or value what they do. They're just a tool for you to benefit from.

Plagiarism can also harm the original content creator, who might have to go through undue process to prove they own the content you've stolen from them.

How can I avoid plagiarising?

Link to, share, reblog/retweet or tag people in content you want them to see rather than re-uploading the content.

Give proper credit, even in private spaces. If you send someone's art to a private group chat, tell them who made it and where to find it, or better yet, only send them a direct link to the original post.

"Credit to the original poster" and "not mine" are NOT proper credit.

Avoid sharing content from Pinterest and similar 'sharing' websites. Pinterest's entire model is based on people re-uploading things that do not belong to them and their DMCA process is a nightmare. Use the reverse image search or check the Pinterest post for the original content link and share it straight from the source.

If you're unsure who made something, don't share it or use it. Often it takes me less than 10 minutes to find out something is stolen and who it belongs to originally. If you need to, ask around! Often other people will know if something has been re-uploaded or if its safe to share.

Do your due diligence, always.

I found plagiarised content, what should I do?

Alert the original creator. On many websites only the original creator can get stolen content removed unless you can prove you're acting on their behalf.

Alert others the content is stolen. Be wary that on some sites the uploader can choose to hide or remove your comments, so its often best to take screenshots and make a separate post in conjunction with leaving a comment.

Report the content where possible. In some cases you can use flagging it as spam or stolen content to make a report or you can contact customer support directly and alert them to stolen content.

Don't positively engage with the stolen content. If you have, do your best to remove your engagement by unliking it, deleting your reblogs, ect.

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thiefhellivator · 3 months

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UPDATE

The Wattpad account desi_human was successfully, completely shut down and all stolen works fully removed from Wattpad within 72 hours. A huge congratulations to the authors who, when alerted, immediately filed a DMCA with Wattpad to get it shut down.

STAYSafe also now has an X account. Located under the same @thiefhellivator username, we will be using X to continue our outreach and support. If you are interested in a STAYSafe group community on X please reach out.

We have now also compiled a Wattpad Masterlist, since Wattpad is so rife with content theft. We will continue to make individual ALERT posts for each, but we felt it would be easier to compile a singular masterlist rather than continuously spamming the feed.

We are also still actively looking for page moderators or people who can help casually with tracking down content creators and alerting them to content theft.

#staysafe #skz #stray kids #UPDATE #anti plagiarism #skz stay #stay #stray kids stay #plagiarism

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