Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25786309-20141130165753

Hello, creepypasta faithful.

While browsing through this wiki and reading some of the old classics, it has come to my attention that a certain member of this forum is taking creepypasta submissions from 2010 onward and putting them in "Compilations," so that he might sell them on Amazon for $3, thus turning a profit from the work of others.

Now, taking writing from another human being and submitting it to CreateSpace so that you can make it in to a paperback and sell it for money is obviously wrong. It's also shocking to me that some of you are endorsing it as a good thing, and that some of you have paid money for it.

At the present time, I don't think any of the original authors of these stories has attempted to make any real world profits on their work, which means that Cleric's compilations on Amazon have not been challenged.

However, rest assured that if any of those original writers came forward and could verify their identity, that he could possibly face both civil reparations as a consequence of his actions.

So, this is an advance warning to anyone who wants to take Josef K, or Whitehouse, or Violent Harvest, or any other real-world author's work and place it in some type of mishmash to sell in any format. DON'T DO IT.

You are not only disgracing the free and open sharing of ideas that was set in place on /x/ and the original creepypasta site, but you are trampling on the rights of someone else's creative ideas, and that, my friends, is disgusting.

I will be personally reaching out to some of the users who wrote some of the stories in Cleric's first two volumes, and I will be making them aware of what he has done. If any of them have plans to compile their work themselves, then rest assured that I will be helping them to petition Amazon and take down this vile attempt at theft off of the internet forever.

Maybe this comes off a little harsh, but I shouldn't have had to bring this to light. All of you should have known deep down that stealing is wrong, and that's exactly what this Cleric person has done.

Good day. 