Dear fellow Daoists,

We have noticed that multiple copyright infringing cases were reported to us in the past week. We are disappointed by these violations of our original creating policy, and we have taken actions to protect the intellectual properties of the original writers.

Webnovel is an open writing platform, but this doesn't mean we have any tolerance toward stolen work. We devote to create a healthy creative environment, not only for writers on our platform, but also for the writing community as a whole.

Webnovel, together with other platforms (Amazon, Reddit and Major content websites) follows the industry standard DMCA procedure. This means that all user generated content is treated as the submitter's virtual asset and we are not able to take down any content unless the original author reports the violation.

Despite of this, you can help enable us to take actions on the copyright infringements faster by informing the writer. If you find any works that violates our copyright policies, please notify the original writers to file a DMCA claim on the said work to us. Only the DMCA notification from the original writers can authorize us to take the suspicious work down legally.

The email address for the DMCA report is dmca@webnovel.com and can be found on the bottom-right corner of our website. A DMCA page with instruction is on our schedule.

We hope it will make the reporting process much easier.

Again, we value all original authors and their intellectual properties as a top priority. We reserve the right to take further legal actions if we find any individuals or organizations are implementing copyright infringement intentionally.

Thank you for your support and sincere trust.

Webnovel Team

    Just as they said. Flag it as a reader if you know it was copied or plagiarizing another person's work. But inform the original creator or author to contact webnovel to file a DMCA claim.

    Negative review bombs work only to the extent of informing new readers that the work is plagiarized. It doesn't help to take down the novel.

    The faster the original author knows about it and the quicker he emails webnovel, the easier it will be to take down the offending work.

      Where do we usually found the stolen works? If it was too many, i think we won't be able to solve this copyrights problem completely. Even here we couldn't read all of the original novels. I think the only way to solve it is : hurriedly signing your contract.

        now i understand why some novel has a lot of chapter and has a release of 3 and 5 chapter like if was a translate novel....so the ORIGINAL novel that release 1 or 2 chapter are the true original that's why they don't get to the top cuz those copy and paste bastard. the true original take more than 2 or 4 hour to complete a chapter without edited.

          now i understand why some novel has a lot of chapter and has a release of 3 and 5 chapter like if was a translate novel....so the ORIGINAL novel that release 1 or 2 chapter are the true original that's why they don't get to the top cuz those copy and paste bastard. the true original take more than 2 or 4 hour to complete a chapter without edited.

          WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL There are too many originals, I suggest you implement a system that helps maintain control of the novels that are published on the platform. My recommendation would be to put a waiting system like "What's Next?" But in this you can read the novel and to be waiting should have minimum about 5000 words and maximum about 10000. If the novel meets the required, you vote for it if you like it. So that way you can check the novel if has copyright infringing.

              KingBiBiK It's only a 5 minute process. If they aren't willing to go through such a process to protect their own work, why should anyone care?

              In addition, RRL or any Google Search cannot be the arbiter of truth because this is the Internet. At best, Webnovel will have an idea that the work might be copyrighted by someone else, but they do not have the right to stop it because they do not know if it's the original copyright holder or not.

              Imagine an author, A, posted a story many years somewhere (offline or on an online board that has been taken down). Someone, B, happened to have a copy of it and posted it on RRL, claiming to be his. A now posts it on Webnovel, and simply because it's already on RRL does not mean that A does not possess the right to do so. If B DMCAs it, he is committing perjury. There are many considerations to the matter which is why it's industry practice to only take down things through a DMCA.

              This is the standard template needed for a DMCA. All Webnovel can do is make it easier for a copyright holder to submit the DMCA (this is the template I took from what they have been planning), but the DMCA still needs to be done by the copyright holder.

              Full Name
              Street Address
              City
              State
              Zip
              Phone Number
              Company Name
              Your Email
              Location of copyrighted work
              Link of the infringing novel on Webnovel
              Additional proof to verify ownership (eg. screenshot of backend platform, copyright ownership documents)
              Other Information

              "The information in this notice is accurate."

              "I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."

              "I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notification is correct and accurate and that I am the owner or agent of the owner of the rights described above."

              DIGITAL SIGNATURE (FULL NAME)

                  I encountered an impostor! Bah! Even I myself feel ashamed because of him/her. Fortunately, the real author was here at Webnovel. I loved her story so much, even it take so freaking long time for her to update a chapter! Wuuwuuu...😭😭😭

                  This is good, the people that were stealing novels were giving us all a bad reputation.

                  I think the issue is that people don't know their work is being pirated. I publish on this site, and I still would have no clue if someone took my novel as there are just too many original novels. Of course if I found out I'd file a DMCA claim as it's not too much trouble. But the main issue remains the same: you'd have to spend so much time to sift through all the novels to see which one is violating your copyright (if any).

                    AndrewReise Same thing as how many works are stolen by translators (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) to translate but the publishers aren't exactly aware? What do publishers do? They also employ DMCAs.. and if they don't do a thing, the 'culprit' can continue doing so.

                    This happens across the entire spectrum of content creation. There's no reason why mere 'reporting' by an uninvolved party should have any say in it. The uninvolved parties should bring it up to the copyright holder.

                        Czernobog So much? I'm 99% sure you're saying this solely because of the Wuxiaworld novels. The problem with that is that both WW and Qidian both believe they're in the right. WW has a contract with Qidian, and under that contract Qidian believes that they have the right to dual host the novels, similar to how the novels used to be on both Gravity and webnovels.

                        WW on the other hand is of the belief that that is not possible since their individual translator contracts would forbid that due to needing a second contract with the translator to post it anywhere other than WW.

                        Since both sides believe they're in the right, the only way to solve the issue would be through the courts. You and I have absolutely no way to know which side is truly in the right for this matter. Considering Qidian hasn't taken chapters from the original translator of Transcending the nine heavens, otherworldly evil monarch, or some other novels I'm sure are on here, I don't think they're acting in bad faith here.

                        It's entirely possible, but considering the author for TTNH completely peaced out and likely wouldn't give a shit even if Qidian did steal his works yet they still didn't, I can't help but think they're not quite as bad as you think they are.

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