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Prompt: Bikini Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

It depends on what you mean anothers work. If you are creating a fan fiction based on a previously established fandom like a book, a movie, etc then unless you are copying the work and/or not citing appropriately when you use small sections of the work, then no, it is not plagiarism. If you are writing a story based off another fan fiction author's works, then you must gain permission prior to using their original characters/world etc. The reason for this is that the creators of existing fandoms have the resources if they choose to use them to protect their work. Amateur authors do not, so we take a very dim view of others using their work.

Right now it's not on the list as we don't have a modification in place that would work to send the emails, but with the new code it may be something we see in the future. However, that's why we have the currently reading section that you can use to mark what you are reading, then just check that page to see what has been updated. There is a notes section so you can put a note to yourself such as "Last chapter read: Ch 3" or something along those lines

Yea... That's sorta what I said... I don't think we've seen a 1 month jump like that since 2002/2003 when we first opened... I could be wrong, but I doubt it...

Well, it has been a busy month here at AFF! I apologize in advance, but there is a lot to cover – I’ll try to keep it succinct but informative. Welcome To the FF.Net Refuges! Meet our newest Moderator How to ask for tech support Where to ask for Tech Support Known Issue: Center Login Box How to correctly upload chapters Code Update PayPal Balance & Donations Archive Clean Up & Moderation Status We’ve already posted a special announcement welcoming our new members, but I’d like to just point people to it that may not have seen it yet. Since June 4th we’ve seen 11,000 plus new members join, a record month for us here! Their additions to the site have brought us to 115,139 total stories with anywhere from 800-1,000 of those being new to the site. We averaged over 120k visits a day! We had over a 600,000 unique visitors (a more than 30% increase) accessing over 100 million pages in June alone. We’ve also seen the addition of another new member to our moderation team. She goes by the name SmellsLikeJapan both here and on the archive. Apparently neither of our two newest moderators are chatty Cathy’s. She gets along well with Bronx since they both seem to be afraid of the newer smartphones, using an old school flip, but SLJ has added a mustache to hers! Add in that she prefers men’s deodorant and flower scented candies and you have one hell of a bio. Hey, they give me the info, I just write it… Since we’re talking about moderators: I just want to cover a few basics. We are not FanFiction.Net. We are not associated with them in anyway. We actively moderate our site, but there are 10 of us vs 141,000 of you. We are all humans, with lives and issues outside of the site. We all volunteer to do this and many of the staff spend as much, if not more, time here than with their paying full time job. We aren’t unfeeling robots, we love this site which is why we do what we do. We are open and available to all of our members; however, I feel the need to remind people of proper etiquette when requesting help. When you need help, please remember we are here to provide it – Like I said, we are outnumbered 14,000 to 1, so please when you ask for assistance remember to be polite and non -confrontational. We always endeavor to be polite but we also don’t tend to sugar coat our responses as that simply draws the process out and doesn’t do anyone any favors. There is a difference between polite and rude. Polite: Your answer can be found in our FAQs, if you have questions after reading please let us know. Rude: Are you really so dumb that you can’t read the FAQ? Polite: The issue with your disclaimer can be found by reviewing the FAQ we linked to in the initial review. Rude: We told you already, fix it. Polite: We appreciate feedback, but as previously stated we are in the process of a code re-write. Rude: READ before bitching please. See the difference? Like I said, we are human beings. When you come at us with vitriol, it takes every single ounce of strength we have to provide that polite but blunt response. When you threaten to leave the site? It’s hard not to just respond, “Don’t let the door hit you were the good Lord split you…” We work hard, we respect you, please respect us in return. It will make the entire process much more pleasurable on both sides. Make sure you read through the provided links in any review/email you receive and if it is for general support, remember the more details you provide the better! Now, how do you go about asking for assistance? You can email us, find us on IM or the forum: If you email us, anything related to tech support should be emailed to technicalsupport@adult-fanfiction.org and anything related to a review or emailed warning from our moderators should be sent to tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org If you go to the forum, there are a couple different forums to use: Forum Support for forum issues and Archive Software for issues with the archive. Neither of these is for general questions, FAQ requests or search requests, nor are they suggestion forums. If your post is not in the appropriate section, it will be removed. So now you are in the right spot, how do you ask for help? Like I said, ask nicely! Please include any and all details. We’ve apparently had a bug since the software roll out in February, but it wasn’t until a user walked out each individual step she did that we discovered the issue 4 months later. Step it out, “I clicked this and this came up. Then I did this.” When we send out specific instructions to you, please follow them to the letter, there is a reason we send as detailed instructions as we do. If they don’t work, tell us where it went wrong. If we don’t have those details, we can’t duplicate the issue. Remember I mentioned that bug we didn’t find for 4 months? Well, that affects the center login box. This box should only be used when you are registering for the site or activating the new code. Once you’ve completed registration/activation, please use the log in fields in the upper right hand corner until this bug is resolved. If you log in via the center box to review, you will not stay logged in. If you log in via the center box to add/edit a story, you will be redirected to a page with only the header and footer information. Let’s talk about how to add stories and chapters. I know those of you coming from FF.Net are used to uploading your stories. It works a little different here at AFF. You can only upload .txt files and they must contain text containers. Otherwise you will end up with one solid wall of text that is virtually unreadable. You can review this FAQ for step by step instruction. Some final things to wrap this new post up: We’re still hard at work on the code re-write. Manta is working diligently especially with the influx of users, but we won’t roll anything out until we are sure that it works correctly. Last thing we want to do is cause more issues! I can’t promise a date for the next code roll out, but I can tell you that our goal is to have this completed by the end of the year. For those of you coming from FF.Net, you’re probably very used to large amounts of annoying ads, pop ups, etc etc. We don’t do that here. Since we don’t use a flashy advertising system we don’t bring in the large bucks that other sites do. We have small banners at both the top and bottom of the page that will not interfere with your browsing experience. Those banners and your donations keep this site running. Right now our PayPal balance is standing at $766.70 which includes $140 in donations! Most of that will be going to pay our balance to Manta for the new code, so your donations are always appreciated! Archive Clean up is still on going. It had to take a back burner for a bit with the code roll out and the influx of new members, but DemonGoddess has been back at it and finally finished the emergency repair in Books>A through F. As for archive Moderation – Well, as exhausting as this last month has been from a moderating stand point, we are still working our way through. Take a look to see what our moderators have been up to here. Happy Reading & Writing! Apollo & DG

AFF Community Forums → Please Read! → FAQs → Archive How To's → Story How To's

Though at least the original poster is still active on the boards - Maybe you will get those pictures after all DG

*grins* You guys realize that this is a 3 year old thread... right???

Not at this time - Right now we need to first worry about bringing the site up to date, then we can worry about extra like that.

Actually - I'm not. It's foolish to think that someone who owns and operates the 2nd largest fan fiction website on the internet would be ignorant of copyright laws. Not only have I had discussions with various legal sources, I did my own research prior to consulting with them. Your arguments hold no water. Please also note, that as you are intent on infringing on EL James' copyright, your information including IP address data has been sent to both her and her editor along with copies of what was posted to this site and our removal of it. I wish you luck with your faulty arguments if and when they decide to send you a C&D letter I'd say happy writing, but it is apparent that you much prefer taking someone elses work in it's entirety as opposed to creating something of your own.

As per the offical website: http://www.copyright...17/92appii.html Broken down to easy to understand terms: http://www.templeton.../copymyths.html Heaven forbid the expedient application of our ToS and copyright law be consider tyrannical - Let's go after the gov't - How dare they create copyright law! It's tyrannical I tell you!!

Copyright is implied and automatically granted even if not implicitly stated to any work from April 1, 1989 forward, please re-read your copyright law. Again, you are incorrect.

Okay deary - First off, DG is my right hand woman; it is a cold day in hell when her and I aren't on the same page, but you can't get any higher than me - I own the site. Since your ignorance of copyright law is amazing, let us have a little lesson: Fan Fiction is considered to be a transformative or derivative work which by the US Copyright Act defines as: 17 U.S.C. § 103(b) states: They further more defined it further in a later publication (US Copyright Office Circular 14: Derivative Works) Therefore, a legal case can be made that fan fiction can be copyrighted so long as there is a large amount of new material. To apply it to this particular instance, EL James used only the character's names and descriptions, creating her own characterizations, settings, plot and world, which can be regarded as a substantial amount of new material. While to date, there has been no formal testing of this in court to the very end, Salinger v. Colting is an excellent example. While there was initially an injunction from the District Court, the Appellate court reversed the injunction and sent it back down for the 'fair use' and transformative work doctrine to be reapplied. Unfortunately for those of us waiting to see how this would ultimately be determined, the parties settled out of court and it was never fully tested in a court of law. That being said, Master of the Universe is not public domain and you may not post it (or the same story with names changed) on AFF. The story was a product of her imagination that while she changed names to create a original work, is hers in its entirety - Both versions. We have removed your posting of the story from our site and it may not be republished.

That absolutely could be the issue - The site is not optimized for mobile browsers so that can cause issues.

The only thing from a story content aspect that is not allowed on the site is real person fiction about someone under the age of 18 for legal reasons. Beyond that, so long as it is properly tagged, anything is allowed. We understand that not all content is going to appeal to everyone which is why it's so important that things are tagged correctly so that people can avoid clicking on a story that may involve themes that they would not be interested in reading.

The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes. Legally we cannot host any content posted prior to your 18th birthday as it opens up a host of legal issues. Consider this the consequence for lying about your age - All bad deeds have them, this is it in this case.

Guest - I will admit, it was a hard thing to have to do as I've only had to remove people for plagiarism, trolling or because they were underage. As you can see, we gave her chance after chance after chance, but there has to be a time when you put your foot down. I respect her as an author and sad that she couldn't see fit to abide by the rules, I hope that all works out well with her in the future!

I apologize, however due to repeated ToS violations and warnings, the user has been removed from the site. Please note that she has been on AFF since 2006, has been contacted several times, and the staff has had several conversations with her in regards to the previous ToS violations. There are to date: 5 documented instances of unauthorized advertising, starting 07/2010 5 documented instances of review demands, starting 07/2010 1 unauthorized poll in story After the last instance in August of 2011, she was suspended for a period of 2 weeks at which point she was advised that this was her last warning. She was made aware that the next ToS violation would result in her removal from the site. It was brought to our attention recently that she was editing a story to bump it up in the chronological listing on the update page to advertise the fact that she was leaving AFF. After careful review, it was determined that the report was indeed correct. While we wish her well in her future writing endeavors, bumping a story with no actual update at the expense of other Author's who have actually posted new content is not acceptable and a violation of our ToS. We stand by our ToS and our warnings - As such she was removed.

Prompt: Snapdragon Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

I'm me... Self awareness at its height *giggles* I have delusions of grandeur as they keep telling me I run the place....

Please ensure you read the note at the top of any of the search forums: Your post has been edited accordingly.

It's one of those continuity things - You're writing in a British fandom, so it is appropriate to use the correct terms to be accurate with how the characters speak. Now can you write it with just American slang and terminology? Of course, always an option as well! I do however agree with Rogue, I would prefer on or another.