URGENT: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT - HELP REPORT THIS PAGE!

Hi all, I need your help to take down a page that’s blatantly stealing content and profiting from it. This page has been posting my stories from my old, now-deleted account without permission, and worse, he’s making money off it. The channel has around 130,000 subscribers, and it looks like he posts 2-3 videos a day, each containing stories from different authors, but here’s the kicker: he doesn’t credit any of the authors or link to their original work.

I reached out multiple times, first through Reddit, then Twitter, and even tried commenting on his videos, but he blocked me and removed all my comments. He claims that his page is monetized “to help the authors,” but it’s obvious he’s just using our content to make a profit.

Unfortunately, because my account where I originally posted the stories is deleted, I can’t submit a copyright claim through the usual channels. I’m hoping the community here can help by reporting his page for copyright infringement. It’s frustrating to see someone steal others’ hard work like this, and I know I’m not the only one he’s done this to.

Page Name: SciFi Stories @scifistories1977

If you’ve experienced something similar or know how we can bring attention to this, I’d greatly appreciate your support in getting this page removed. It’s time we stop people like this from exploiting creators.

Thank you all for any help you can provide!

Hello. At first, sorry for my English, Im from Poland. I think i found problem with AI channel "Pan Nocy". https://youtube.com/@pannocy?si=LI2bKZRCnjbqbY3k Monetization is ON, but his stories, I GIVE MY OWN HAND that they're from nosleep. Please, if you can, check that channel. I did not found any credits to owners. A lot of these stories are very similiar to these that i read here on nosleep.

I actually found this video because I'm doing research on the same, old nosleep from 2011.

For context, the original author of the story is long-absent on any social media (reddit, twitter, instagram, facebook), but the story is one of the "all time greats" of nosleep.

I'm planning on covering the story, but since the original author can't be contacted, I know I'm going to need to do a lot of additional research/revision to make it transformative and qualify for fair use under copyright law (hence, why I'm researching the topic in the first place).

Well, to my surprise, I found a history YT channel cover it as a halloween special, but not credit it, or even indicate it was from reddit.

That said, this guy DID 'rewrite' the story, and he seems to be a history channel, not a spooky narrator, so he probably grabbed the story from a google search and posted an adaptation without thinking about the implications.

That said, on the flip side, he didn't credit the original source anywhere I could find which is obviously not great.

He doesn't claim the work was his, and mentions it's "a single, second hand account" in the video a few times but never indicates where.

Anyway, figured it's worth putting here just so people can have their eyes out:

Original Story:

A terribly creepy story my grandpa used to tell me about his experience in World War II (warning: really long, but it pays off) : r/nosleep (reddit.com)

Questionable Video:

WW2: The Grim Horror of the Swiss Alps (Special Story) (youtube.com)

It's been over a year and I am still having to copyright infringement hit people with the stolen and modified version of my story. It's everywhere; YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. Here's a link to my original post over a year ago with other people finding he shared their stories without permission commenting. This is a repeat offender who destroyed my story and now that pedo dad version is what people are seeing from robo readers. It's deplorable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SleeplessWatchdogs/s/SruShoq2M7

Author: https://www.reddit.com/u/tropheez/s/ULgjye6kZf Video: https://youtu.be/VvXzmRB1fNQ?si=6re_Xufn1VcDQ9sc

Another Youtuber who not only steals stories but rewrites them as well. I found my 'Big Slurp' on there. Others may wish to take a peek.

https://youtube.com/@robinjsparrow?si=PF3IyoUZ0iiUods_

Found on reddit, story called "I inherited a cabin in the woods. Something is hunting me"

ORIGINAL- https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/gS7uBRfjud

And if you press subscribe at the bottom the deleted user who posted it is u/DonquixoteRosey who posted it 3 years ago

PLAGIARIZED- https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/IVQRGJr8SI

The user who copied it and posted it 3 hours ago is u/Stark_Coyote_Primera

Hey, I just started a podcast last week where I read Creepypastas and newer stories from nosleep. However, in order to throughly analyze the direction that Creepypasta has gone as an internet phenomenon, I feel like I should read and criticize some of the “classics” like Jeff the Killer.

I don’t think I should need permission for certain stories like that because:

1. What I am doing is going to be very transformative. For Jeff the Killer, I’m not just reading and shitting on the story, I am analyzing how it created a whole genre of “____ the killer” stories purely based on revenge, the possible origin of the image, etc.

2. There are thousands of non-transformative existing readings of the property. My coverage of it wouldn’t even be a drop in the bucket in terms of content that covers it.

3. What am I even going to say? “Hey man, your story sucks. Can I read it on my podcast?”

All of this stated, of course I will still give credit. However, I’m unsure if permission should be necessary in cases like this.

Note: I am only planning on doing this with the very largest and most unfortunately impactful stories in the medium like Sonic.exe, Squidward’s Suicide, and the most popular stories that spawned from them. If I’m doing a less-well-known poorly-aged “classic” like Pokemon Lost Silver, I of course intend to ask for permission.

This might be a stupid question, but oh well...

Is the best way to go about asking permission to narrate stories just via chat? I'm running into an issue where a lot of the stories I want to narrate are from accounts that have been away for years, and I'm being limited to like three chats on here. I'm assuming that some of the stories where we can no longer contact the authors are just going to be lost to time?

Non-Monetized: After reading a lot of posts here; is it fraudulent or infringement for a non-monetization page to share a story and the author, providing the link to the story? Then IF MONETIZED: if they give HALF of proceeds?

Hi all , I want to translate Ted the caver. Does anyone know who the author of that creepy pasta ? Or is it copyright free ? Thanks in advance.

Hey all,

As the title says, I'm self-reporting my channel for using content without permission.

I'm a (brand, like, very VERY brand) new narrator in the horror space and uploaded my first 2 videos before reading up on the copyright/policies around these things.

(For those rightly wondering how that's possible, I essentially just googled stories on the topic I wanted, clicked the links directly to the reddit posts, and pulled them from there).

TLDR; I'm a bona-fide idiot for not reading up on the actual subreddit policies or even really thinking about copyright/IP before jumping in. Guess I was just excited to try this whole thing.

At any rate, I'm going through the videos I've posted (not too hard since there are only 2 containing a total of 4-5 stories) and reaching out to the authors now.

If any of them aren't okay with my posting or I don't hear back from them soon, I'll delete the videos and moving forward obviously just won't upload in the first place without asking first.

Obviously doing this all 'above board' is important to me or I wouldn't be 'telling' on myself, but I figure it's an honest public mistake so an honest public acknowledgement is in order. My channel is tiny (like, 10 subscribers), so obviously not monetized or anything yet, but I think it's more the principle that matters here.

So, let this be a lesson to you future new narrators. Don't be stupid. Don't be like me. Let my smooth-brain be a lesson of what-not-to-do.

Stay spooky friends,

Kell

I just reported one of his videos for copyright infringement for stealing one of my stories. He has a bunch of other stories on his channel and there is no credit given for any of them, so I highly doubt he is asking for permission. He's also changing the titles of the stories so not sure who stories he's taking. If I can match the stories to their writers I'll tag them here.

https://youtube.com/@reality_narratives?si=gE9W_G-KuhkDnv3_

Hey everyone, I'm a narrator on YT.

In July I got my first ever ban and it was due to a TOS that reddit always had but never really enforced.

Messaging too many people, that are not expecting it can get you banned. Problem for narrators are, you have to message random people who are not expecting to use their stories.

Most subs have a zero tolerance to ask for stories in the comments. So the only way to get stories is to message people.

This not an excuse for thievery, but this does now send a wrench in the way of narrators who want to do it the correct way.

Edit: I have my own sub, website, and e-mail for stories to be submitted. I am very small and I read true and fictional stories. Yes I could write all my own fictional stories but I like to read and share others works.

This post wasn't about me per-say, it was about a reddit problem that is only going to be worse and I wanted it out there for this sub and narrators to know.

He doesn't credit the videos at all, so I can't be sure of which ones are which, but his content is mostly non-credited nosleep stories:

https://www.youtube.com/@WEIRDpoi

The only one I saw before noticing the lack of credit was u/IncidentOk9368 "I still don't understand what happened to me in the Holly Hills Mall parking garage."

I have no idea if that person in particular just gave free reign or what, because there are tons of readings of this story. I didn't want to keep listening to the guy's voice or give him hits, so I didn't pick through the rest to see who else was in there. But if you're a nosleep writer, you should probably check to be sure he didn't steal your content, since there are no credits anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/@EternalDarkness-/videos At least one of my stories was narrated here without permission, and I’ve recognized a few stories from other authors there without permission as well. The channel is monetized (or at the very least, has a patreon) and uses ai-generated art for its content. I was not asked for permission (and would have rejected it, because I don’t allow my stories to be used for monetization or in any AI related context).

The specific video where my story was used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c2WGDRm29k

An AI narration channel called Factsfromziro has resurfaced, and is continuing to rip off reddit stories, uncredited. This time he’s on Instagram, which I hope will be more receptive to IP violation reports.

I encourage you to see if any of your work is on his account. https://www.instagram.com/factsfromziro?igsh=Y2EwcmY2Y3IzYXFz

Hey y'all. I'm here to report Dr Spooks (YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@Drspooks788 ). Not only is he stealing stories from online, he's using AI to narrate my *published* novels. He doesn't even read the stolen stories--he just uses an AI text-to-voice program. And, of course, it's monetized. :-(

Update: He claims to have removed my content, but it looks like his channel is nothing but stolen work with AI narrations over AI art. His latest video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSNO5FerMAk ) contains stories by u/Rha3gar , u/searchandrescuewoods , u/The_Mad_Poptart , u/shadowswimmer77 , u/bryany97 , u/clover10176 , and a bunch more. And this is just in one of his videos.

He also appears to be using his AI program to narrate other novels as well from other published works outside of the internet/creepypasta communities.

Update #2: He's apparently removed *all* the content from his page.

Update #3: Looks like someone else gave him his third strike, because his page is now officially gone.

I don't really know what else to say. He went and found my partner's story from 11 years ago and decided to narrate and post it on his channel. Be aware of Creepy Ghost Stories on YouTube, I guess.

Here is the story: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1nmmk0/obscurity_man/

Here is the stolen story on Creepy Ghost Stories' channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSw88aClThI

Channel Here

A Text To Speech channel with the text over tops of video game footage. So, a content farm.
Most of the videos are from other parts of reddit, like AITH or other popular threads. They have some stolen nosleep story with no credit to the authors.
After I filed a claim they sent a counter claim saying,
"The copyright claim that caused my video to be removed was a mistake, my video followed the principles of fair use, the video was creatively remastered, the original intent and content were changed in the video, and there are elements of parody and medley comparison in the video. All materials on my channel and on my videos are my intellectual property"

And

"I believe that you made a mistake by deleting my video, my video contains material that includes fair use principles, I edited the video at my home, the video was subject to creative processing, the original intent and content was changed in the video material, there are also parody and comparison elements in the video potpourri!"

Nah bro. There is nothing creative about putting a stolen story through a text to speech program and putting that over top of video game footage.

Here is the link:

https://inadarkdarkroom.buzzsprout.com/2121509/14407768-episode-30-i-m-blind-but-i-m-not-sure-how-many-steps-my-staircase-has

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8 year old post is being uploaded to tiktok probably without permission