Fellow authors, if your book has been plagiarised by a third party site and you're confused about what course of action you should take, then hopefully this book would be a help to you.
Hence said, this is just a voluntary effort after witnessing a...
1. Submitted a support ticket through Wattpad support page regarding copyright infringement of my work.
Link: https://www.wattpad.com/help/DMCA
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2. Submitted an abuse form with cloudfare under the category 'copyright infringement and dmca violations'.
Link: https://abuse.cloudflare.com/
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3. Rated my story 1 on novelhd, so that they assume that this story is not appreciated by readers.
Some other writer's work was taken down from novelhd because mass readers rated the writer's story on novelhd as 1, so that a negative impression is created regarding the work of that person, thus making novelhd remove the story because of lack of engagement and positive reviews. Because, the better the story works there, the more they'll earn.
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4. I have added this photograph randomly in between the chapters.
This,
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Because, while copying, the media in the update is also copied, and hopefully if any site (such as teenfic who mirrors wattpad) would copy, this image will also be presented there as it is, thus informing the reader reading there of the illicit plagiarism by the site.
Note: Do not write it in textual form as novelhd, teenfic tend to replace the word Wattpad with their website's name.
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5. I have sent an email to the below mentioned e-mail addresses. Writers and readers do spam these morons who are hosting a site like novelhd.
Abuse@veesp.com
vnvnads@gmail.com
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6. Signed both the petitions to take down novelhd and teenfic.
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7. Marked my story mature as novelhd do not plagiarise mature stories.
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8. If you do not want to rate your story mature, simply post a blank update first, let novelhd plagiarise it and later edit it with your content. This way, novelhd will only have the blank chapter and not the edited one.
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So, these were a few steps I took to safeguard Love Unrushed! I hope this would be a help to you too.
Lastly, if you're new here, you could check my story Love Unrushed! on my profile as well as my youtube channel whose link is in the bio.
