*nods* I have thought of it from the standpoint of the list or site owner, too. Removing a fic can cause panic on the site or list -- even when there is a really solid reason for taking it down. In this case, are people going to start distrusting the site if the fic is taken down to the point of not wanting to post there or taking down stories they think might be taken down or...? Who knows.
But I think short of chunks to full stories copied word-for-word, or perhaps the obvious stealing of an original character (and I say obvious stealing, because, there are some characters where I see the name reused, but it's a different character --- for instance, there's other people with a character named Aranel, and it's not anything like the one I write about, and even if it was I suppose I wouldn't much care, but on the other hand Mary & Malinorne developed a character named Thaladir who I am just honored to have been given permission to use in my fics at times, but would be a little more difficult not to say 'hey, that's not right' if someone without permission started to write about him).
And when it comes down to it, you're very right about the plots -- names and places might change, but most of them fit a particular mold (or can be squished into one).
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Date: 2009-04-19 03:04 pm (UTC)But I think short of chunks to full stories copied word-for-word, or perhaps the obvious stealing of an original character (and I say obvious stealing, because, there are some characters where I see the name reused, but it's a different character --- for instance, there's other people with a character named Aranel, and it's not anything like the one I write about, and even if it was I suppose I wouldn't much care, but on the other hand Mary & Malinorne developed a character named Thaladir who I am just honored to have been given permission to use in my fics at times, but would be a little more difficult not to say 'hey, that's not right' if someone without permission started to write about him).
And when it comes down to it, you're very right about the plots -- names and places might change, but most of them fit a particular mold (or can be squished into one).