Person #2 doesn't sound very ethical, obviously. Is what #2 did wrong? Well, it certainly wasn't very nice, but when it gets to legalities, it's fanfiction, it's very, very grey, and although rude to do so without permission, it doesn't seem it would be illegal.
And it seems this isn't the first time, from what I'm understanding. Perhaps what needs to happen is for people who have been burned to then let others know who they should watch out for if #2 is such a plotklepto. I recall, in days of old in another fandom -- okay, in the ThunderCats fandom (which obviously rules out ThunderCats as the fandom having issues) -- we would totally, totally announce practically at the top of our lungs when someone showed up and was being a douchebag. I KNEW who the people to avoid were. Granted, smaller fandom, but our warning system was, like, awesome, once we figured out who the real assholes were. And when I bumped into one in another fandom? Oh, I raised that red flag so fast it wasn't funny.
Message boards, blogs, and list servs. Okay, nobody calls them list servs anymore... yahoo groups and the like. But sometimes just passing the word along of 'hey, so and so is an asshole, avoid' helps to keep other from being burned.
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And it seems this isn't the first time, from what I'm understanding. Perhaps what needs to happen is for people who have been burned to then let others know who they should watch out for if #2 is such a plotklepto. I recall, in days of old in another fandom -- okay, in the ThunderCats fandom (which obviously rules out ThunderCats as the fandom having issues) -- we would totally, totally announce practically at the top of our lungs when someone showed up and was being a douchebag. I KNEW who the people to avoid were. Granted, smaller fandom, but our warning system was, like, awesome, once we figured out who the real assholes were. And when I bumped into one in another fandom? Oh, I raised that red flag so fast it wasn't funny.
Message boards, blogs, and list servs. Okay, nobody calls them list servs anymore... yahoo groups and the like. But sometimes just passing the word along of 'hey, so and so is an asshole, avoid' helps to keep other from being burned.