Plagiarism

Apparently some people still haven't gotten the memo that you cannot steal people's work. This includes their writing, photos, video, graphic art, music, even their unique ideas. What people create is their intellectual property and automatically is granted copyright protection when published. When you steal it you are violating copyright law. This can get you taken to court and your site or ads taken down. It also will have an effect on your reputation in this industry.

I have tried to educate people about this several times: in my blog, on social media, on Fetlife, and now here in this forum. While video piracy is the form of copyright infringement that has to most measurable effect on people's revenue, taking things like people's writing or ideas is not any less a matter of theft.

Plagiarism isn't just word-for-word copying, it is also what's called "mosaic plagiarism", where you take someone's sentence or paragraph and change some of the words, like swapping adjectives or other pieces around. Swapping around some adjectives doesn't make it original.

If you are not aware of what plagiarism is and is not, please read up on it.

Stop taking people's work and trying to pass it off as your own. Come up with your own content. Thanks.

Sue the other dommes. Take them to court and out them.

This is most definitely a frequent serious problem in ProFemdon.

I am sorry that this has happened to you. Your posts here are always well thought out and very articulate. I subscribe to your media and have always been impressed with your literary skills, guess there is not enough honor among Dommes.

If it was posted here, it must be another domme on here. We need to figure out who it is.

Actually, no... We don't. Mistress Tissa is anything but shy and if she felt like calling out someone (rather than "sub-posting" about it in a way that the offender knows its about them), then she absolutely would have called her out herself.

I wouldn't sue them for this. But I'm starting to out them. I'm just keeping it off forums and in my blog.

It's remarkable because most of the people who have plagiarized me are other Phiiladelphia Dommes.

That's right: some of my Philly colleagues have essentially tried to compete with me using my work!

Thank you, nysubjack.

This is the curse of writing well: people who can't will copy you.



And not enough talent. LOL!

No, it does not mean that. It means two things:

1. I want to bring it to everyone's attention, especially to Dommes who may be reading, so they know that they should not do it, and

2. If a Domme who *has* plagiarized someone comes across this post, she takes the stolen material off her site, ads, whatever immediately.

LOL! You are correct, Asp. I'm not shy. I'm very direct.

I am going to call people out, but I will keep it off spaces like this and relegate it to my personal space.