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i-want-my-iwtv:

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fyeahcopyright:

We’ve been getting pings and @’s 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’re not reading your “do not copy/duplicate” notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3′s authorization or assent. It looks like they are pulling from Wattpad too, again without authorization or assent. 

While the Ebooks-Tree DMCA page seems to imply that you need a lawyer or other “authorized person” to submit a takedown notice, you don’t; you can do it yourself. 

As we’ve posted before, fanfic writers hold copyright in their stories, although not in lines/quotes from the works they’ve 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’t legal advice (none of our posts on FYC are), you might want to consider using this template (well, the bolded bits) in telling ebooks-tree to take down your content: 

Your Name and/or Pseudonym as an e-signature (or the name of the person you’ve authorized to submit this request, with a slash before it and after it):
Link(s) to the unauthorized works (link to the pdf, the mobi and the page hosting all of it): 
Link(s) to an authorized version of your work (whether on AO3, tumblr, LJ or somewhere else): 
An email address of the submitter (include it again even if it’s in the header): 
This statement: 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.
This statement: 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.

That’s it – that’s all they need to know – you can submit all the info via http://www.ebooks-tree.com/info.php?contacts with DMCA Complaint in the subject; you may wish to submit the same content to Google via this page, or to BING via this page. 

(Fwiw, even though they claim that they comply with the Copyright Act, they aren’t compliant with the DMCA Safe Harbor rules, as they aren’t listed on the copyright.gov list of agents.)

You can also submit a complaint about ebooks-tree to CloudFlare, who hosts the site. Their DMCA page is at https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form – as a matter of law you do not need to include the legal name of the copyright claimant/the fanfic writer, but  you should include the pseudonym that the fic was posted under if you don’t want to include a legal name or address.  

Hey, folks. Just so you know, the OTW is aware of this, and we’re working on deciding what action we might take as an organization. For now, here are some instructions on how to request that your writing be taken off the site.

You guys, they took one of my fics ;A; I’ll be pursuing them. To check to see if they took one of yours, copy the url below and replace my pseud with yours.

http://www.ebooks-tree.com/search.php?q=burnadette_dpdl

Fight the theft of fanfic! I’m going to send them DMCAs complaints as shown above. 

Sent my DMCA’s as well. Seeing as they have also pilfered the works of many published authors (including Anne Rice, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and more) I’m thinking they might be in for a world of hurt. I hope so, anyway. Thanks for letting me know so quickly yesterday- you are indeed Fabulosa!

You’re most welcome! I didn’t realize that they had published authors on there as well. It’s reprehensible to steal fanfic, but it takes massive balls to attempt to steal published work, too.

AR hasn’t mentioned it on FB, does anyone think she should be made aware? She’s supposedly got the best, most vicious lawyers…

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Awwwww thank you! Feels good to run one of the fave VC tumblrs of a talented fanartist ❤ Part of why I started it was to get better images out there for fanartists’ reference and inspiration. It’s evolved into smtg else but I think it still inspires? In it’s own bizarre way?

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remarried makes gr9 fanart, etc. and I shoulda been following way earlier, People Off the Page, go follow!

(Hah, I read gr9 as grrneeen for some odd reason, and gr8 as grate. Or grinfinity. pfffft.)

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HEY. hey. People Off the Page. I have some VC-related or -adjacent messages to reply to, and I will. Just, you know, I didn’t forget ;}

Also top secret special gif in the making… just have to rerender and will upload tonight so stay tuned… ❤

Well, know that I’d been following your VC blog before I decided to return to tumblr this year. And apart from all these wonderful things you do for this Fandom (Us, People off the Page), what I so much love about this blog is your absolutely fantastic sense of humour with which you approach the VC!!! Happy Birthday, You Creature of Wonder!

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!ohmahfrickittyfrackettyharpsichords, I’m so touched, you hit me Right in the Feels in such a very good way! *attack hugs* 

It continues to be mutually beneficial, as I have had to learn how to do new things in order to do them for THIS BLOG, like making gifs, and it’s also made me question my own ideas about the characters, and get to know all these people I never would have interacted with if not for our fandom, and so much more <3<3<3 Dare I say that it’s a huge part of my life? That’s probably obvious ^_______^

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WAYYYYY back when I started this thing, I was afraid that I was offending our fandom with my sense of humor, as can be seen in one of my early memeythings:

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Yeah, it is applicable to her situation gdi Claudia stop eating all your handlers or so help me but it was also my concern whether anyone thought I was being just offensive and not funny at all… clearly the People Off the Page (I love that you used my word for us, too, btw) convinced me that they really enjoy my brand of silly and now I go alot farther, still with the intention of keeping it tasteful (PUN INTENDED):

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(Sometimes when I get an idea for one of these things I actually make myself laugh just thinking about it until I can get home to make it)

All my Fandom is here….

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vasilissia:

duendology:

Out of boredom, and as usual the seasonal outburst of my deep affection and sentiment for the Vampire Chronicles, I decided to give it a second go and ferret about in the tumblr world. 
And apparently, all my fandom is there. And by “mine”, I mean the heretics who simply said “hell no” to “Mater’s” a) church and god preaching, b) The threatening of her own fans (at that time mostly teens!) because of fanfiction, c) her new literary directions so far as her own characters are concerned. And, of course, there are more…bu oh well…

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The force is strong with this Fandom.

Yes, it is!

^ duendology’s ReadMore is an accurate description of what happened to the VC fandom to split between People of the Page and as I like to call ourselves ’People OFF the Page,’ but really, it’s just the actual real VC fandom. I don’t include People of the Page as being in the fandom, they’re usually the worst at remembering/understanding/spelling the most basic names/events/etc. from canon ffs. 

Tumblr is not really the best platform in terms of fandom discussion, but yeah, watch the RPers and ask them questions, you might find very good headcanons about the characters you might not have considered otherwise. You’ll find AU characters like female!Lestat queenofthesavagegarden! You’ll find fanfic (many really good VC fanfic writers have posted their stuff on AO3 and they mention it here). The VC fanart (I put a link to my tag for it, follow the artists you like there!) is here and it’s thriving. There are artists who even take commission for VC fanart. 

To not feel like you’re standing on a highway with so much going by, you have to realize that in Tumblr, THAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. Let it go. You can’t see/read everything that goes by. It’s okay to miss things. 

Your tumblr experience is yours to make, tho, so if you feel lonely, reach out, contact people, and the ones who respond may turn out to be your best friends ❤

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Thanks, bb! ❤ Your Lestat knows that revenge is a dish best served cold, with a side of silent treatment. Oooooh.

People Off the Page: As you can see, primusdux’s Lestat and my Lestat are totes sharing the black queen crown ♛, FYI, and it’s totally okay, nothing is gonna get broken. 

Lestats playing nicely with himselfs, yayyy! Oh wait…

Advice for VC fandom newbies?

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advice? ADVICE? Um, wowww… so I usually have strong opinions on ALOT of things, especially VC-related, but this sort of knocked me speechless. For about a minute. Then I wanted to write a thesis on the subject but managed to keep it to this much.

I would suggest that:

  • If you want to RP as one of the characters, or an OC, you really have to read at least the first 3 books. And lots of fanfiction 😉
  • We have awesome fanfiction and AO3 aims to protect it.
  • Did I mention the fanfiction? It fills in the gaps that canon leaves. And it’s also just delishus.
  • The RPers on here are SO fun to follow. Try finding some in the vcdirectory! 
  • With the canon: you should have an open mind to Crazy Shit Happening

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  • DUE to the Crazy Shit that Happens later in the series, you are not required to consider it all canon 😉 Alot of people don’t consider books 5-10 to be canon. Or 4-10. Or wherever they want to draw the line. That is FINE.
  • Brace yourself, because Prince Lestat is coming. No, not like that, you filthy thing! ARRIVING. 10/28/14. And, depending on its crackiness, there is going to be a divide between people who consider it to be canon and people who do not, and that is FINE. 
  • There’s a divide between People of the Page and People Off the Page, described here.
  • In general the People Off the Page are a low-drama fandom, but we do have our spats, even the illustrious human behind i-want-my-iwtv has experienced a few direct situations, and that’s just life, bc people are people, after all. I’ve accepted my share of the fault in these situations and learned from the experiences. I’m not perfect, nobody is :-

The bottom line is that it’s a fandom that only in the past year or so has really come back to life, we were in hiding bc Anne Rice disapproved of fanfic and waged war on us in the 90’s for it. Now that she seems to have lowered her weapons about that, and even praised some VC fanart – permanentglitter for example! – and with the announcement in March of the new book, well, we’re all coming out into the light and making friends and it’s been wonderful!  

I hope you see this, Anon, because we all know there’s a human behind that gray face, too, and I want to personally welcome you and anyone who’s just joining us now… we are a different kind of vampire fandom, that’s for sure.