Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of stealing another person's written work with the intent to pass it off as your own. Extensively quoting or otherwise borrowing from someone else's work without acknowledging your source also counts, even forgetting to give credit was an accident. Plagiarism is bad.

Because of the way the Internet works, plagiarism can be a problem, real or imagined. It's all too easy to post someone else's work in a new place with a new name and pretend it's yours, or to do the same thing yourself and pretend you've been a target. Meanwhile, writers with different handles at different fanfiction archives have been accused of plagiarizing their own work.

The PPC sadly experienced drama due to false claims of plagiarism once in 2003, in what became known as the Thalia Weaver Incident.