Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

Fanfiction by Bertie Bott

While I’m excited to get a page together detailing Kittyinaz and my exploits in Las Vegas at The Vampire Diaries Convention, I am saddened that I came home to a bit of a situation and now must focus on that instead…

As we know, plagiarism is something that happens in the fanfiction world no matter how vigilant we try to be to catch/stop it. What some do not know, however, is that there are many instances of plagiarism that are – generally speaking – done accidentally because they were inspired by a story they read.

Let me be clear – Charles Caleb Colton claimed that, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” and to some extent there is truth to that. But when you take a person’s plot and ideas and present it as your own, even if in your own words, and without giving credit to the original author…

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