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We have a bit of a challenge [message #50908]

Fri, 13 June 2008 07:58

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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I have just started to publish a story by Paul Jamison, a new writer here, though he has been published on Nifty before. The story, William, started out as if it might have been an adult/youth erotic drama. I asked Paul about that and he let me preview several chapters to set my mind at rest. And I started to publish the tale.

Almost at once some hue and cry started on another forum. It appears that Paul's theme and a theme by Brew Maxwell (a well known net author of whom I had never before heard) have strong similarities, at least in the early chapters. The essence of the brouhaha is that "I need to delete the story here because it is either plagiarism or breach of copyright".

Paul has not read the other story (nor have I), but has asked his editor to do so. The editor says that there are certain points of similarity but that the stories are by no means congruent, albeit with similar themes. The row is quite fierce. It may spill over to here.

But the challenge is that Paul, not unreasonably, feels that what was a joy has now become toil. Do you have any advice for him?

In asking this question I make one point. Any vitriol expressed here will be removed. If the row from the other site spills over here as a row, that row will be removed.

[Updated on: Fri, 13 June 2008 07:59]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

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