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Post by scratch on Jul 24, 2007 16:24:39 GMT -5
I would like to know if it is possible to plagiarise a role play.
I'm asking this because I recently had to end a four month plot line after some major ooc/ic crossing on someone elses behalf.
The entire thing left me confused and even upset because it means I have to pretty much make Scratch blame himself for something that nobody would be aware of unless they were crossing ooc/ic and having their character know what Scratch was doing when their character was not anywhere near Scratch.
It's not even funny...
And now it turns out that the person who basically forced myself and the other player involved to end our plot has got a very similar storyline on the go that they have yet to put into motion.
(for 'very similar' read exactly the same)
So is this plagiarism or just bad role play ethics?
You tell me coz right now I just think it's petty and pathetic...
Jachin (player behind the now seriously unhappy Scratch)
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 24, 2007 16:45:37 GMT -5
I personally would say both. If it’s an original RP originally written by you (and you can prove it), copied nearly word for word, it is indeed a level of plagiarism (though not in a legal sense, I dont think..), and most certainly horribly bad RP etiquette and ethics. Shame on them. Sadly things like this happen often, most times we are unaware because the act of stealing is taken to another site, one that the perpetrator is hoping you are not a member of.
Its just bad form no matter how you look at it, and if it were me, there would be some serious hell being raised all over the place.
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Post by ophelia Lokason on Jul 24, 2007 21:35:39 GMT -5
Oh good grief. I'd be raising holy hell right about now. Though it is not plagerism of copywrited material, it is still plagerism in my book. Its bad RP form, bad ethics and downright disrespectful.
~HiS~
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Sapphira
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Post by Sapphira on Jul 24, 2007 22:15:54 GMT -5
I also agree that is just damned rude. Someone obviously needs drug out back and taught a lesson in RP etiquette.
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Post by Seyda on Jul 25, 2007 15:46:11 GMT -5
Yeah...what they said. I'd be acting like a total hag right now if that was me...
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Post by Chiru on Jul 27, 2007 1:40:57 GMT -5
*raises hand* Can I assume this deals with the same people, who have been causing a lot of problems ic/ooc crossing even though they claim to not do such things? If it is, you should have known that they would do such things. It's the only way they know how to play it seems.
Also because you have been doing such a thing for months, if you can find the first thread it started in *whatever site it's located* and pull that out and prove it *and pray they didn't delete it hence hopefully screen shots would be nice* then go ahead and start raising hell. It's bad form all around.
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Post by Wings on Jul 28, 2007 11:41:56 GMT -5
I don't know the exact context, but I doubt there would be anything you could do 'legally' as such, roleplay is not protected in ways properly published work is, but still - it sounds like very bad roleplaying behaviour, and if this is really the case, then raising hell would at least help others to see what has happened, and would give a chance to avoid roleplaying with those acting against the etiquette in such disgraceful manners.
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Post by RequiemSkye on Sept 22, 2007 0:51:40 GMT -5
ugh... that's HORRIBLE rp form.. I would SO raise holy HELL on them....
But since what you wrote wasn't legally copyrighted...*shrugs* there's nothing you can really legally do about it. If they like, published it and was making money off of it, then if you could prove it was yours first, you could do something. (( this is actually currently happening to a friend of the human's... an rp character she created on a board has been used in a book... *laughs* She is so raising holy hell..'cuz she is able to prove the character was hers years ago))
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