Stargate fans: check for your stories.

[icarus]

Stargate fans, check if your stories have been stolen, or if you see stories you recognize.

A plagiarist going by the handle Katie-baum has stolen Lenore's "101 Ways" and -- the gall is staggering -- fiercelydreamed's "Unidentified." The technique has been to change the names from SGA to the One Tree Hill fandom.

I missed the opportunity to roast Katie-baum over a slow flame (the review button says her story's no longer on the archive though it still appears there) but there's every chance all of her One Tree Hill stories are stories are stolen from other fandoms.

HP fans, you might want to check, too.

Where's a catapult when I need one?

Update: She's deleted everything, including her bio, changed her author name to random keyboard gibberish. Stay tuned for her to turn up under a new name. She probably won't plagiarize those two stories again, but several of her other stories were by bibliotech and by authors in the Killer's fandom. She had "in the works" frostfire_17's The Hostage Major.

FF.net readers, keep your eyes peeled for:

- The Hostage Major (really by frostfire_17)
- Static (a Killers fic, written by someone named bibliotech)
- Home Improvement (really by bibliotech)
- Better Than A Holocaust (really by bibliotech)
- A Rennaisance Man (really by bibliotech)
- Two Girls and a Spaceboy (really a Doctor Who/Black Books crossover written by doyle_sb4)
- Black Cherry Skies (a Killers fic by faeries_wing919)
- Life at Seventy Percent (a mix between two stories, one by elethoniel and one by faeries_wing919)

Sleuthing and links to the real fics are here.

How long do you think it'll be before she turns up again? A week? Two?

Update 2: Huh. This is weird. Katie-baum has posted a new bio:

Hi. This is Katie-baum. This profile has been entirely scrapped for the reason that most of the work posted was plagiarized. I own up to it completely and I apologize to the (actual) authors, the readers, and anyone who geniunely cared about anything I posted here. Think whatever you will of me. You have the right and basis to.

You can all PM away and air out whatever annoyance, frustration etc you may have with me. I wont be replying.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've subscribed to her account for an alert. She's set it up so that she won't get her account suspended. If she comes back to this address and posts something... *slow smile*

Icarus