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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Sept 3, 2010 7:47:43 GMT -5
Some prick by the name of Tony Greyfox is going around the Internet claiming that I stole his characters Erik and Colin, who are furries (whatever they are). I have no clue who this guy is, nor the faintest clue why he is doing this. If you look on my deviantART page you will see that I have posted some stories featuring my characters Erik and Colin, who are ordinary animals. Erik is an overweight skunk while Colin is a brown raccoon who is based off of RJ from Over the Hedge. Anyway, the point of this post is what should I do and I want to know if this has happened to anyone else before. Basically, I'm being accused of plagiarism. Tony Greyfox has sent me a very threatening e-mail requesting that I stop using MY characters who he claims are his or else he will sue me for copyright infringement. He claims that the stories he has posted online (you can find them by typing in "Tony Greyfox's Stories" in Google) have been copyrighted. I have read these stories myself and I should warn you that they are very pr0nographic. I am very distressed here. I have a story featuring my characters that I would like to get published, but I'm afraid Tony would read it and then sue me for using HIS characters. From what I've found out about him, he was born on September 27, 1970 and lives in British Columbia, Canada. What should I do?
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Post by Nemo on Sept 3, 2010 10:32:19 GMT -5
Well I've never had it happen to me, but I have had my own character posted on a fan wiki site before >>
Does this Tony have pictures of his characters, and do you have pictures of yours?
And have you tried telling him that they're not his characters, and that you never knew the guy before the comments/emails were sent? You can try telling him it is coincidence since.. no one can copyright an overweight skunk >>
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Post by Bishop on Sept 3, 2010 11:40:31 GMT -5
According to: www.furaffinity.net/journal/687182/ He posted about this in his journal over a year ago. First thing I'd do is check the dates on the e-mail... Unless he's persistent he'd have forgotten all about it Edit: Also, his earliest work seems to be from 2002, so unless you can prove your characters are indeed your own then you are in the wrong...
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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Sept 13, 2010 7:44:44 GMT -5
Well I've never had it happen to me, but I have had my own character posted on a fan wiki site before >> Does this Tony have pictures of his characters, and do you have pictures of yours? And have you tried telling him that they're not his characters, and that you never knew the guy before the comments/emails were sent? You can try telling him it is coincidence since.. no one can copyright an overweight skunk >> He doesn't have pictures of his characters, who are not very well described in his stories. All I know is that they're anthropomorphic animals, one a raccoon and one a skunk. I don't have pictures of my characters, but they're described well enough to where you can tell that they're completely different from his furry characters. I haven't replied back to the e-mail since that would be a bad idea since I don't know this person. And you're right. It could be a coincidence, and, yes, you're right again. You can't copyright a furry, though his stories appear to be copyrighted. I think he just put that down there to make people think he got his short stories copyrighted. Before you can get a work copyrighted, it has to get approved by the Library of Congress, and I highly doubt that Congress would copyright a furry story.
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