If you write fanfic and post on AO3, you need to know this

[yohjideranged]

via wallwalker :

"For-profit site Ebooks Tree reposted a bunch of stuff from AO3 without permission, collects ad revenue. Search for your AO3 username and their url on Google to see if your stuff has been taken.

Their DMCA info is here. This tumblr post (here) has a good summary of what to say in your takedown request."

More on the situation, what to do, and how to discourage bots from AO3 News.

I hope this is alright to post here, as it isn't designed to help anyone out financially, but I thought people would want to know that their work may be posted on a site that is collecting revenue from having your works listed (even if it is just ad revenue) without any benefit to you. If it isn't okay to post, let me know and I will remove this.

Comments

[ashkitty]

Effing bastards. Thank you for posting this--I don't know if I would have seen it otherwise, and they've got two of my stories up. Appreciate the boost.

[yohjideranged]

You're welcome. I figured that a lot of people are boosting this, but one more place couldn't hurt.

One of my partners works is on there...so yeah...

[amadi]

They've got some of mine, too. Thanks for the notice, I wouldn't have seen it on Tumblr.

[butterflydreaming]

Thank you. I was surprised about mine!