Here’s your very LOUD AND NOT SOFT REMINDER that it is not okay to repost my work (or anyone’s work) here or on other websites without crediting the author/artist!!!!! And it should go without saying, but plagiarism is also not okay!!!!! Taking the entire concept of a poem and changing a few words is plagiarism!!!!! Using entire lines from my work (or anyone’s work) in your own writing is plagiarism!!! Don’t pass off other people’s work as your own!! Not only is it not chill and frowned on heavily in all writing/artistic communities everywhere, it’s friggin illegal, my dude!!!!! It’s a copyright violation!! I’ll fight you!!! I’ll fucking fight you, pal Fists Up let’s party let’s fucking go
let’s fucking go to Google and use the reverse image search or the regular freakin SEARCH BAR and type that shit in if you don’t know the author and you’re not intentionally trying to be A Huge Asshole
if you’re not trying to pass it off as your own work and you’re just trying to add content to your blog or your twitter, you still have to provide a source for content that doesn’t belong to you!!!
ALSO when you see writing/content stolen from artists you know, call people out! remember that you don’t have to be mean about it because not everyone is intending to be malicious!!!!!! just pointing out stolen work to the original content creator is good but it’s just not always enough and it’s often REALLY emotionally exhausting to have to fight with people on the internet every day and file copyright infringement claims. when you point it out to me, it just ends up on a list of twenty other posts I’m trying to get credited for or taken down so I really appreciate when other people have my back on this stuff!!! support the creators you like and admire!!!!!!!!!!!! support creators in general!!!
I know it doesn’t seem like a big deal because people post uncredited quotes from movies and songs and stuff all the time!! but it’s really disheartening for new and emerging writers to have their work not attributed to them (aka stolen)!! also again, it’s not legal and I’ll fight you
this has been a PSA!!!
(via latenightcornerstore)
