HELP PLEASE/Novel stealing site

[fleurravenbooks]

This might not be best topic so i apologize.
Did anyone find their novel on site called novelhd or something similar?
That site is stealing novels/books from writers that put their work online(such as wattpad)

[Sethstiel]

Umm.. yeah, mine is also there.. wtf...

Knights and Mages Online; The Lightnovel - Sethstiel

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ORIGINAL

Knights & Mages Online; The Lightnovel | Tapas

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https://www.wattpad.com/story/45883992-knights-and-mages-online-the-lightnovel

[syr456]

Real talk, there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. These sites are everywhere.
Even on the flipside, the Japanese LN's, Chinese wuxias, manga, Korean manhwa, etc that people rave about are all examples of piracy.
Webnovels happen to be the most vulnerable.
It's best to get used to it, ignore it. You could always ask the admin to take it down, but even if he listens, it's probably uploaded on 3 or 4 other sites like it.

[syr456]

yep, learned this the hard way myself haha

Eventually, I simply became numb to it. One way to fight these systems is to leave links to your Patreons or other forms of monetization, Amazon, etc. in the description on the off chance that there are people reading on these sites.
Any strong fans gained could = real support later down the line. Possibly.

(As many, MANY people were frantically looking for ways to support Solo Leveling)

[mx_Jinn]

They've also reposted my novel on there. Looks like there either copy and pasting stuff from wattpad, or they've somehow are pulling in the source code form wattpad and duplicating the content.

There is a petition going on.

Sign the Petition

[mx_Jinn]

Oh and alternatively - if you push your novel into drafts it'll stop being on their site. This isn't a long term fix. You can update your cover to say NovelHD Stole this from [platform]. It'll get taken down pretty quickly.

[DesiredUsernameTaken]

So I've gone down a tiny rabbit hole because I wasn't aware of this issue (so take this with a grain of salt 'cause I only started an hour ago ). It sounds like submitting a DMCA take down notice generally solves the issuers. These sites don't know what is and isn't stolen until you notify them of it, and because of the DMCA notice they'll be able to look into what is going on. Many have received results from this, but it may take a couple weeks, sometimes even a month or more, because there's no computer automatically taking everything down, it's people who are dealing with millions of novels (also commonly working in a different time zone, with different holidays, days off, etc).

The DMCA thing isn't guaranteed to work, but when you do email them, you can at least wait it out and stop thinking about it. Give yourself a reminder for a month from now. Check up on them. Wait again. As others have said, it can be an endless battle, not just because of the slowness in taking these stories down but those who steal webnovels can just steal it again and post elsewhere, or on the same site after a few months.

1) https://www.dmca.com/faq/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown

2) https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/what-is-dmca-takedown-notice-process/

[fleurravenbooks]

okay so, for wattpad people tried to write their support team but no luck.
Some say it's because some countries have weird/weak copyright laws.
However if we all agree to report site maybe google wont show it anymore?

[fleurravenbooks]

it seems like its a bot that is somehow connected to wattpad, because my book (well its same as here but i wont update there) only had one chapter/character profile

[fleurravenbooks]

while i always felt bad for authors who get their webcomic stolen ,i can see why ,i dont condone it (its awful ) but its usually so readers dont pay, but these ( at least mine is) are free.

[nostalgicroxas]

On the upside, I'm not cool enough to be stolen from apparently. So they at least haven't looked into devART or Tapas or Booksie (or Ao3) since those are the "main" sites where a larger /bulk portions of the chapters of my novel "nearly there nicely" are. So that should at least "tell you" where they're stealing from.

[fleurravenbooks]

yeah im glad there are always fans that are willing to pay few bucks even when they can read it for free
My novel is not even near patreon level, but it's nice to know for future

[fleurravenbooks]

wattpad, it must be wattpad. I have an idea. Lets all update our books on wattpad but lets copy paste something like
"site novelhd is stealing work that you can read for free ....." etc, we just need to agree on what to write

[fleurravenbooks]

GOOD IDEA

[nostalgicroxas]

"If you are reading this message on the site NovelHD, please be aware that the work is uploaded without the express written permission of the author in any way, shape or form, and does not support the author. Please read on xyz. Thank you!"

[fleurravenbooks]

thank you, i mean if problem will be solved i can wait. But i feel bad because who knows how many people that earn money from this cant get penny because someone stole their work....they cant even get money from ads

[fleurravenbooks]

thank you, lets all do this.

[fleurravenbooks]

it isnt about you being cool ,im sure you are. I think their bot (bc im pretty sure it isnt human) is connected to wattpad only

[Shadowofdeath]

i know it can be expensive but i think the only thing you can do is get your book published and copyrighted and have an isbn number so you can dispute your claim, and get more results if that make sense again i am so sorry that happen that's is terrible i can tell you worked really hard on your comic for someone to steal it is sad

[Shadowofdeath]

if you need any more help please let me know