Plagiarism and Fanfiction

It’s just words, right? I can steal your words and characters because it’s fanfiction. I can bully and harass because I took your work right? I have higher stats because I lied about everything, but it’s fanfiction so it’s totally cool, right?

Plagiarism is "the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."[1] That is, both imitation (or outright copying) and failure to be truthful about that imitation are necessary attributes to call it plagiarism. It is possible to copy or imitate openly without quoting the original work word for word (pastiche, parody, satire, homage); it is the lie (of commission or omission) about sourcing that makes it plagiarism. (Fanmakes and related tropes such as songfics are often put into this category.) - Fanlore: Plagiarism

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not?

Back up site, screen shots, and more on Mrsfizzle (Kaylie Night) on my Tumblr, The Truth is out there and Beyond.

*Update 02/12/25: Kaylie Night has deleted her MrsFizzle accounts on AO3, Tumblr, Wattpad, FictionPress, and Royal Road. Accounts cleared but not deleted on FFN, Space Battles, and Sufficient Velocity. For more information see Anti-Plagiarism on Tumblr.

The Anti-Plagiarism Investigation Reports- 87 pages of complaints alone!

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The image is a screenshot of works that have been plagiarized. Mercedes Aria I have a nearly 400 page document detailing user: MrsFizzle plagiarizing my Autumn in Philadelphia series for her story Reunification. I prefer not to make the google doc link public but will send it via PM if that's okay with the mods. I just want to update this: MrsFizzle was suspended on another FF site for harassment, and she continued on other sites. She created alts and got readers to help in this in an attempt to get the link. Reply Dec 3, 2023 . Edited May 20 #2,587 FanFiction Enthusiasm Hello. I would like to report a plagiarism case. Below is the original poster: https : / / www . fanfiction . net / u / 6094456 / OmniIBIBUltraInstinctGodzilla is the original author whose works have been plagiarized. https : / / www . fanfiction . net / s / 13982671 / 1 / The-Strongest-Hero (Posted on October 31, 2021) https:// www . fanfiction . net / s/14053768/1/The-Lion-King-The-Ghost-and-The-Darkness (Posted on March 16, 2022) https: / / www . fanfiction . net / s / 14313025 /1 / Godzilla-Miraculous-Terror (Posted on December 31, 2023) Below is the impostor plagiarizer: https : / / www . fanfiction . net / u / 15955434 / OmniBIBUltraInstinctGodzilla is an impostor account that has plagiarized the original author's works. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14270909/1/The-Strongest-Hero (Posted on August 24, 2023) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14270914/1/The-Lion-King-The-Ghost-and-The-Darkness-Rebirth (Posted on August 24, 2023) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14313196/1/Godzilla-Miraculous-Terror (Posted on January 1, 2024) If you look at the timestamps, you will notice that the impostor account has only been around since August 24 2023, while the original author has been on this site since September 10 2014, nearly a decade. Reply Jan 1 . Edited Jan 4 #2,588 Wildside hello ! I'm not sure if it's the right way to do this, but I want to report a case of plagiarism : Firstable, I'm french and my english is not fluent, then sorry if i'm not always understandable. I'm the author of a fanfiction based on Harry Potter universe :

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Mercedes Aria

I have a nearly 400 page document detailing user: MrsFizzle plaguairizing my Autumn in Philadelphia series for her story Reunification.

I prefer not to make the google doc link public but will send it via PM if that's okay with the mods.

I just want to update this: MrsFizzle was suspended on another FF site for harassment, and she continued on other sites. She created alts and got readers to help in this in an attempt to get the link.