** Plagiarized Poems Center **

Please report your plagiarised poem/s here.
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Other threads with the same subject:

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=1431

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=3714

Here is a sample Cease and Desist Letter that can be edited to your liking. This letter was copied from : http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/contract/cease.htm

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Dear [name]:

It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled [name of work] (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. I have reserved all rights in the Work, first published in [date], [and have registered copyright therein]. Your work entitled [name of infringing work] is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis. [Give a few examples that illustrate direct copying.]

As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for [name of infringing work] nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.

I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by [date give them about 2 weeks] indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall take further action against you.

Very truly yours,

PLAGIARIST:

http://members.migente.com/locoburrito1977/#eight

Plagiarised poems on his "my poems" section.

Go check to see if your poems are listed there without your permission.
My poems "Gangter At Heart" and "My Name Is Crack" and "Life Of A Troubled Teen" and "River Of Jagged Emotions" are.

Shame on you LocoBurrito! !! but thank you for being in the arm forces.
:(

I wrote this person repeately but he ignores, or is not getting my messages. I wrote
http://members.migente.com
and complained various times, with no response and no action.

http://members.asianavenue.com/Azn_BoiToi69/

Plagiarised "Gangster At Heart" :(

Shame on YOU Boitoi69!

I wrote the website,
http://asianavenue.com
but apparantly they don't care about plagiarism.

http://forum.penpals.com/archive/index.php/t-4156

Plagiarised "Gangster At Heart"
Shame on you Styler!!!!!!!!!

:( I think I'm losing this battle. I feel like giving up.

I wrote him, and the website, they haven't made time to answer a plagiarism complaint yet.

It seem like "Gangster At Heart" attracts plagiarist. I have mixed feelings about the poem now. :(

http://www1-00.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=reckless_driver

Plagiarised the ever sooo popular
"Gangster At Heart"

Shame on you Reckless Driver!!!!!

I am soooooooo depressed. As people with no talent have to come to this website and steal our poems.

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=MissThugAngel

Yup... you guessed it.. "Gangter At Heart" Again. :(

Same on you MissThugangel!!!!!!
who the hell is camilo?

I wrote her too.. Xanga.com again. Home of the plagiarism I guess.

*kicks google.com for showing him the truth.*

http://www.viet1net.com/postt471.html

Plagiarised "He Don't Even Notice" a poem I wrote from my little niece's point-of-view.
and he also had stolen "Little Girl Sue"

Shame on You Tin Tuc!!!

I wrote the webmaster, and he wrote back immedietely, and deleted the poem, even apologized.
Yay! one victory! My hopes are high again.

wow i couldn't actully beilve how many people are passing this poem off as there own. Makes me sick really how there not even saying "i'm sorry".

Ya, some people have no confidence in themselves to write thier own poems.

Thanks for the support Jackie. I was starting to think I was by myself in this.

holy Crap! my friend tried to pass that off as his own! Ppl need to break their writer's block or whatever and get creative!

Really? I hope you confronted him, hehe
...and thanks.
My mistake was to delete the original post, dated from when I first joined this site. Hey who knew that this was going to happen. duh!
I wonder if Janis can re-post the original post. dated and all. hmmm

OMG that is so sad! That is why I was afraid to have my Poems on the internet. My mom was always suggesting I enter them into contests on the Websites, but I was afraid that they would just steal my Poems. I feel really bad for you, and I hope that you get more victories. People who are to dumb to write their own Poems, should be sued or something. Lol. Get a Creative Mind of your own people! Sorry if we are intelligent enough to write our own Poetry, and people actually like it! I hope that people stop stealing your Poems. Maybe there should be a No-Right Click thingy on here. But we shouldn't HAVE to do that so people won't steal, but maybe it'll have to happen someday. I have to go now.

|With Love|
-Manda

One reason I decided to go with my whole real name, as opposed to a nick name or symbols, is because of this palgiarism problem. It's easier to prove that a poem is indeed yours with your real name. No disrespect to those who are using nicks. I understand your need for privacy.
I would like to hear other authors thoughts on this.

its funny because that locoburrito guy is really hypocritical. He had like a paragraph on his page about how he hates it when people steal pcitures and poems off of his page. He is all talking about taking those people to court, I want to write to him to call him on it but i am sure he has heard a lot from a lot of peolple by now

YEah, i noticed. I tihnk it's just a way for him to pretend that the poems are his....asshole.

He has plagiarised several poems from here. He is kinda funny though.. that locoburrito. Heh.

I type --with the quotes

"one of my poems here" poem

on google.

ex: "Gagnster at heart" poem
or "My name is crack" poem

try it with one of your oldest poems to see what happens.

Here are tips on protecting your work.

1) Don't delete your poetry, this website and many others hold and register the time you posted the poem. Proof of when you wrote it.

2) Use your own name for your important poems. It's easy top prove that my name is David Velazquez, but it would be pretty hard to prove that my name is CurlyFries, Green Eyes, or some crazy symbols. (with all due respect for those who prefer these styles)

3) If you are really serious about your work, send a self addressed stamped envelope of your work, dont open it, and save it somewhere safe.
or register it with the Copyright office.

Someone named joe, from this site is stealing poems off people, for example, "Life of the Dragon" by me, was renamed "The Life Of The Fairie". Others have also been reported including one by Unseen Exposure

I'm sorry to hear that.

I have posted a cease and desist letter on his comment section. I hope he realizes what he did is against the rules. He is 12, so maybe he made a mistake... or two.

~David

This poem: http://www.best-love-poems.com/poems.php?id=221148 was stolen from a book that i have.

wow...now you guys have me afraid to post my poems...

Hi David you posted comments on your poem "Gangster at Heart" well i typed it into the search engine on this website to have a read (its good btw) and the same poem came up twice one by you and another exactly the same by Shygirl60218 the only difference is hers was posted on the 10/04/2003. i dont know whether you re-posted it or what but it looks bad on your behalf due to the fact that yours is dated some time afterwards. Im not accusing you of anything just wanted to let you and give you the chance to clear it up for me. thanks.

"Gangter At Heart" was posted when I first joined this site Aug 28 2003. It even went to the number one spot. I removed it along with the rest of my poems when I left the site. Came back, and reposted all of my poems.
In realiality there is no way to prove whether its is mine or not.. you will just have to look at the writing tecnique, or ask one of the older members. Or Janis even.
Good luck :)
David Velazquez

... and yes, it has been plagiarised by a bunch of people in different sites. lol

Enslavement_of_Beauty

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The Crossroads--Submission date : 2005-02-21 OR (Dead End)

Fate Of A Dreamer--Submission date : 2005-02-21

Lady Of The Night -- Submission date : 2005-02-21

AS you may allready know, 3 of my poems have been stolen by Hailie (Fate of a Dreamer, which she won a contest with, Lady of the night and the crossroads) and one has been stolen by someone named Lee on this site (Fate of a dreamer).

Wow...The Fate of a Dreamer has actually been stolen by 4 different people now...One had made it into a song...another was from Kambodia..or something....I may have called them some quite nasty things when I found out...Thats the way it is=)...

I'm starting to take it as a compliment now...Lol

I feel that this thread has to be er.. revived.

Sorry. The cease and desist letter is pretty good.

If it was a mistake to revive it.. please delete the thread with my apologies, and take the proper procedures.. you know points, lock, delete, ban
... and I won't do it again.

Edited: Better yet, Ken (the moderator) has started a thread in the right forum.. continue this here: http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=51900

Well thank you, i probably should change my name

poor david :( but i can see why they put your poem on their webpage... it's a great poem, dude