Hello!

I hoped that something like this would never happen to me, because it's probably one of the worst things that can happen to an author, but unfortunately - my book "The Hunted" was copied.

I found out about it literally two days ago, when one of my readers accidentally came across my book on another profile on wattpad. Assuming that this user is probably someone young and perhaps not even aware that plagiarism is a crime punishable by a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment, I decided to first politely request that my book be removed. Unfortunately, as a result, my post was deleted and my account blocked by this user.

So I was left with no choice but to take more decisive steps. I sacrificed more than two years to make "The Hunted" happen, and I have no intention of tolerating the theft of my book and my hard work. Even more so when someone is brazen enough to behave this way when the author asks for the removal of the stolen work.

This user's copyright infringement has already been reported by me to the wattpad administration, so I hope that the stolen work will soon be removed and the user's account suspended. However, the matter is serious enough that it is not even about one book. As it turned out, at least two other works on this profile were also copied from ao3 without the knowledge of their authors (I have already sent messages to the real authors of these works). So I assume that probably also the other books on this profile were stolen from wattpad, ao3 or another platform.

Therefore, I would be extremely grateful if you also report this profile to wattpad.

The user in question is @/kookiesv7

Update: she now changed her name to @/villainhyungv

Update II: and again to @/heritagev

My book "The Hunted" has been posted under the revised title "V Vampire"

Here are the other books that were copied from ao3

Original book called "kill to kiss you"

And copied by this user under new title "slut"

And another one.

Originally posted o ao3 as "baby doll, you're perfect"

And copied by this user, posted as "baby doll"

Update:

We found another one, also stolen form ao3

Original work "He is half of my soul":

And stolen "love is half"

Update II:

I also found the last book. It too is stolen. Here the description is the same, the content has been changed in part, and some of it is word for word (confirmed with the author of the original work).

Original by @grace_flow22

And stolen:

I will be extremely grateful for your help

Theft of "The Hunted"

Update 17/06/2024:

So at this point the situation is as follows.

After my report of my copyright infringement, wattpad removed the stolen "The Hunted".

From what I've seen, this user's account is still active and still has 3 of the 5 stolen books on it - I'm assuming these are the books the authors didn't report personally.

The remaining books won't be removed until the authors themselves report the violation of their rights, and the profile will not be suspended, even though it's not hard to verify that this user is not the author of these works. Wattpad would sooner suspend an account for a obscene gif or photo or cursing in the comments than for allegedly stealing someone's work. It is sad that by such a policy, Wattpad gives permission to such people to create their profile at the expense of the work of others and steal more works with impunity, but there is nothing more we can do.

Nonetheless, I thank everyone who reported this account. I am glad that my book has already disappeared from this profile. I will keep watching to see if by any chance there will be an attempt to bring it back.

Thank you for all the support ❤️

xoxo

- Ayashee