Cassandra Claire/2006
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Trying to figure out how and where these should be integrated and if they should be integrated... They are mostly posts based on the Cassandra Claire plagiarism incident sorted by date. It also looks at the history of Heidi8's actions, particularly as they pertain to Fiction Alley and Cassandra Claire.
2000:: See Cassandra Claire/2000 - Discuss
2001:: See Cassandra Claire/2001: January to June - Discuss
2001:: See Cassandra Claire/2001: July to December - Discuss
2002:: See Cassandra Claire/2002 - Discuss
2003:: See Cassandra Claire/2003 - Discuss
2004:: See Cassandra Claire/2004 - Discuss
2005:: See Cassandra Claire/2005 - Discuss
2006:: See Cassandra Claire/2006 - Discuss
2007:: See Cassandra Claire/2007 - Discuss
December 31, 2005 to January 6, 2006
The Christmas cards Cassandra Claire sent to people via snail mail started to arrive. [1][2]
March 2006
Sometime during 2006, all of the NC-17 rated material by Cassandra Claire on Potter Slash Archive has the author name changed from Cassandra Claire to Epicyclical. [3]
During this same period, Cassandra Claire's Schnoogle page was removed from Internet Archive Wayback Machine. [4] It was last checked in August 2005.
March 7, 2006
On March 7, 2006, Draco Veritas chapter 17 was updated on FictionAlley.Org. [5] [6]
April 16, 2006
Cassandra Claire's plagiarism is noted in an Italian blog which says [7]:
- Alla voce fanfiction.net, nella cronologia del sito di fanfictions più importante del mondo, si legge infatti:
- June 22 (2001) - Cassandra Claire is blacklisted from FanFiction.Net for plagiarism. She was alleged to have inserted into her work uncredited material from Red Dwarf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Pamela Dean's novels.
- Cassandra Claire è l’autrice di due opere tanto famose da essere note persino a chi non conosce il fandom in cui sono state inserite: l’una è il "Draco Dormiens" (Harry Potter), l’altra, invece, "The very secret diaries" (Il Signore degli Anelli) è la capostipite del 90% delle opere slash legate al capolavoro di Tolkien (SIC!). In Italia, qualificata come intoccabile, assai difficilmente sarebbe stata oggetto di un simile trattamento. Oltreoceano, è evidente, la logica della terzietà più rigorosa regna imperterrita. Malgrado tale esclusione abbia procurato una frattura persino all’interno dei canali di amministrazione, la tutela del fandom si è tradotta in un’operazione decisa ed in un’esclusione netta.
- Un altro esempio estremamente indicativo delle modalità con cui il plagio viene trattato negli USA è la board del sito di Adimra. Malgrado tale pagina si trovi formalmente in hiatus, gli utenti sono attivissimi nel portare avanti discussioni da appassionati, come nello scambiarsi segnalazioni su clonazioni non autorizzate. L’ultimo caso discusso in tal sede è stato quello dei plagi ai danni di Jita-kun e della sua fanfiction Consequences: è impressionante (e quasi commovente) notare come i lettori considerino le pagine amate come un patrimonio personale ed agiscano in loro difesa. In modo del tutto disinteressato, poi. Il che in Italia è ancora tutto da dimostrare.
- Il fandom statunitense è soprattutto esemplare in ordine alle misure rimediali: si agisce infatti a colpi decisi di ban e, soprattutto, pubblicità delle denunce. Se qualcuno copia, immediatamente esplode il tam tam dei lettori perché venga interdetta la sua pubblicazione altrove. E’ evidente, pertanto, che la generalizzazione del wall of shame (in un certo qual modo assimilabile al nostro casellario) sia un deterrente tutt’altro che disprezzabile.
- In Italia, neppure a dirlo, regnano indifferenza ed omertà nella più parte dei casi, unitamente ad una concezione concorrenziale e personalistica degli spazi narrativi, per cui ciascuno vuole essere migliore degli altri finendo con l’essere appena ridicolo. [8]
April 23, 2006
On April 23, 2006, CassandraClare.Com was registered by Heidi8. After this date, Cassandra Claire starts going by Cassandra Clare in some places like like the Mortal Instruments google community. [9]
May 20, 2006 to June 20, 2006
cassie_and_rhysenn was, sometime between May 20, 2006 to June 20, 2006, renamed to Rhysenn. The archives were then changed to moderator only. This means that first hand evidence of the reaction to Cassandra Claire's plagiarism situation are not available to the masses to read.
May 26, 2006
Cassandra Claire posted an Draco Veritas epilogue cookie. [10][11]
June 2, 2006
On June 2, 2006, HP Education Fanon, Inc.'s website went live. [12] This is the organization that Heidi8 has been involved with a lot.
June 3, 2006
On June 3, 2006, Cassandra Claire changed her LiveJournal name from cassandraclaire to cassandraclare. [13]
June 14, 2006
On June 14, 2006, Heidi8 complained that some one was in the planning stage for a Harry Potter convention and they had not consulted her. [14] In the post to her LiveJournal on the topic, she called Harry Potter fans idiots.[15][16]
June 22, 2006
Plagiarizing
On June 22, 2006, Cassandra Claire is again suspected of plagiarizing. This time, she was caught by xturtle on JournalFen who suggested Cassandra Claire had plagiarized Gone with the Wind's first paragraph for her Harry/Ginny story, Mortal Instruments.
"Harry was not handsome, but the vivid green eyes fringed with coal-black lashes were startling, and the gentleness in them lent unlikely grace to a face that otherwise would have been too thin and angular to be endearing. But it was, and he was, and Ron couldn’t even hate him for this, which was, out of all of it, probably the worst part..." ~ Mortal Instruments [17]
According to xturtle on JournalFen [18], Cassandra Claire plagiarised this line from the first paragraph of "Gone With the Wind." xturtle on JournalFen confirms that Cassandra Clare did not have an author note or citation in the text claiming to be inspired by Gone with the Wind.
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin . . . ~ Gone with the Wind[19]
Added to these most current plagiarism accusations are accusations that her professional novel has violated Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter [20] trademark [21] in naming her professional series based on those books.
Continuing to be referenced
A comment was made by pandarus in mecurtin's journal which referenced Cassandra Claire's plagiarism. The relevant part said:
- Cassie Claire's "magpie fiction" approach to writing parses as plagiarism in other fandoms, but within HP there was more of a tabula rassa in terms of development of mores and things.[22]
jacquez in mecurtin's journal also referenced Cassandra Claire's plagiarism. The relevant part said:
- I mean, I know that CC wrote "the very secret diaries" and that there was plagiarism foofarah around her involving, iirc, theft from Buffy. And that's it.[23]
Changes in text
Around this time, revisions to the text to more accurately reflect the borrowing were done. Some of the plagiarized material was also deleted.
June 24, 2006
In one of the recent round of hate memes, a poster repeatedly posted copies of Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments and suggested to people that they link to other versions and google bomb it with her name. [24]
June 25, 2006
By this time, Cassandra Claire had made an effort to remove her Mortal Instruments from the Internet. Posts to the mailing lists she belonged to asking for copies of this story were declined. Some fen speculated that she was trying to remove this story as it shared the name of her soon to be professionally published trilogy. They found their copies of the story and posted them to sock puppet journals. [25][26][27] The story was also posted in hate memes operating at the time. Reports in those hate memes included warnings that doing that had led to some sock puppets being ToSed from LiveJournal.
Late June 2006
Cassandra Claire remained relatively quiet during the Msscribe situation. The extent of her involvement was providing an IP address which helped build more of a case against Msscribe. Heidi8 meanwhile initially came out blazing in people LiveJournals like Gun's LiveJournal, accusing them of similar deception and lies. She initially claimed to have evidence that would have exonerated Msscribe. Asked for it repeatedly in Gun's LiveJournal, she never offered it. She later offered a grudging apology that was akin to "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." Then she went on a trip to visit family. After that, she was rather quiet on the whole Msscribe incident.
June 29, 2006
It comes out that Kaavya Viswanathan, a plagiarist from Harvard University, was a fan of Cassandra Claire. [28][29][30]
July 24, 2006
Cassandra Claire locks down comments on her LiveJournal, announcing this in a post that says "I apologize for shutting my LJ down to comments; I've been sick since the beginning of June, pretty much...So I wasn't really up for LJ modding, or much of anything else." [31][32]
July 26, 2006
Cassandra Claire announced that epilogue for Draco Veritas has been sent off to her beta readers. [33]
July 31, 2006
The Disputed Territories of CassandraClare was created on Nation States. [34]
Cassandra Claire has denied that she changed her professional name to Cassandra Clare because of the domain names in comments made on cygnusfap's LiveJournal. [35]
August 2006
Heidi8, like her friend Cassandra Claire, was alleged to be a plagiarist. Below is an example of part of what she is alleged to have plagiarized:
- Never did Draco find anything so difficult as to keeping himself from losing his temper when he was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. "It makes me feel as if someone had hit me," he had said once. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered." The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage, but around Lucius, it had to be done.
- Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
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