{"id":159310,"date":"2015-04-13T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/13\/fyeahcopyright-weve-been-getting-pings-and-s\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T05:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T05:56:30","slug":"fyeahcopyright-weve-been-getting-pings-and-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/13\/fyeahcopyright-weve-been-getting-pings-and-s\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-159310 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/13\/fyeahcopyright-weve-been-getting-pings-and-s\/attachment\/159311\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmr4wrUsxY1s7c5nyo1_1280-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmr4wrUsxY1s7c5nyo1_1280-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmr4wrUsxY1s7c5nyo1_1280-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfanficlegal.com\/post\/116301992754\/weve-been-getting-pings-and-s-all-morning-about\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">fyeahcopyright<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve been getting pings and @\u2019s all morning about ebooks-tree.com who seem to be scraping\/taking stories off of AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site; the site seems to be pulling from UrBookLibrary as well. They\u2019re not reading your\u00a0\u201cdo not copy\/duplicate\u201d notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3\u2032s authorization or assent. It looks like they are pulling from Wattpad too, again without authorization or assent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the Ebooks-Tree DMCA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebooks-tree.com\/info.php?dmca\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a> seems to imply that you need a lawyer or other\u00a0\u201cauthorized person\u201d to submit a takedown notice, <i>you don\u2019t; you can do it yourself<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve posted before, fanfic writers hold copyright in their stories, although not in lines\/quotes from the works they\u2019ve been inspired by, and because of that, fanfic writers can submit DMCA takedown notices, or have someone do it on their behalf. While this post isn\u2019t legal advice (none of our posts on FYC are), you might want to consider using this template (well, the bolded bits) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebooks-tree.com\/info.php?contacts\" target=\"_blank\">telling ebooks-tree to take down your content<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Your Name and\/or Pseudonym as an e-signature\u00a0<\/b>(or the name of the person you\u2019ve authorized to submit this request, with a slash before it and after it):<br \/><b>Link(s) to the unauthorized works <\/b>(link to the pdf, the mobi and the page hosting all of it):\u00a0<br \/><b>Link(s) to an authorized version of your work <\/b>(whether on AO3, tumblr, LJ or somewhere else):\u00a0<br \/><b>An email address of the submitter<\/b>\u00a0(include it again even if it\u2019s in the header):\u00a0<br \/><b>This statement:<\/b> I have good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.<br \/><b>This statement:\u00a0<\/b>The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s it &#8211; that\u2019s all they need to know &#8211; you can submit all the info via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebooks-tree.com\/info.php?contacts\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ebooks-tree.com\/info.php?contacts<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<b>DMCA Complaint<\/b> in the subject; you may wish to submit the same content to Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/legal\/answer\/3110420?rd=2\" target=\"_blank\">via this page<\/a>, or to BING <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/info\/FormForSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">via this page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Fwiw, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebooks-tree.com\/info.php?dmca\" target=\"_blank\">they claim<\/a> that they comply with the Copyright Act, they aren\u2019t compliant with the DMCA Safe Harbor rules, as they aren\u2019t listed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/onlinesp\/list\/u_agents.html\" target=\"_blank\">copyright.gov<\/a>\u00a0list of agents.)<\/p>\n<p>You can also submit a complaint about ebooks-tree to CloudFlare, who hosts the site. Their DMCA page is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/abuse\/form\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/abuse\/form<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; as a matter of law you do not need to include the legal name of the copyright claimant\/the fanfic writer, but \u00a0you should include the pseudonym that the fic was posted under if you don\u2019t want to include a legal name or address. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fyeahcopyright: We\u2019ve been getting pings and @\u2019s all morning about ebooks-tree.com who seem to be scraping\/taking stories off of AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site; the site seems to be pulling from UrBookLibrary as well. They\u2019re not reading your\u00a0\u201cdo not copy\/duplicate\u201d notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/13\/fyeahcopyright-weve-been-getting-pings-and-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7458,17864],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159312,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159310\/revisions\/159312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}