Discussions about AK

d_k_c wrote: I'm probably wrong...Its been a long time...But someone remind me. Was there not contraversy surrounding this story?

d_k_c wrote: He left the genre for that reason? Thats really too bad. One of the best writers of the genre. I always wondered about that.

jnw550 wrote:

Anon wrote:

d_k_c wrote: I'm probably wrong...Its been a long time...But someone remind me. Was there not contraversy surrounding this story?

I don't know if it was this one, but yes there was a controversy about one AK's stories (which ultimately caused him to shut down his own site and leave the genre).
According to Lfan it was the fact that one of his stories apparently copied a chapter straight froma Star Trek novel (so it's safe to assume it was this one).

That's just a shame. He had a few stories that were copied straight from the AU, but he had so much more that was original work.

deathgeonous wrote: Wait a minute. So let me get this straight. AK, um..., went into retirement do to being charged with a case of Copyright Infringement? Or something like that? That's...... well... stupid is what I want to say. I mean, isn't there like some kinda law that fan fiction writers use that pretty much says, 'If I state I don't own this shit you can't do shit to me for writing this shit'? Seriously, I post a ton of fan fiction, or at least I used to, I haven't in a while do to real life problems, but I'm getting back into writing it, and as long as AK was smart enough to put a disclaimer in there, there really should not of been any legal problems for him. So, what am I missing here? I'd really like to know. And, yeah, if anyone can convince him to finish his stuff, I'd buy them a case of beer, cause I would LOVE to see The Superior Girl, and a bunch of his other stuff, finished. Actually, does anyone have a copy of Superior Girl with the pics? I have a cut and past version of that story, without the pics, and would love to get my hands on a with pic copy.

shadar wrote: I wondered at that too. I once had lunch with AK in Boulder, CO in the mid-90's, back when he was really hitting his stride, and found him to be a reserved, almost shy Japanese-American man. In all other ways other than his enthusiastic writing, he was a very traditional Japanese gentleman. He liked to borrow ideas and spun off some of my plots and unfinished ideas, and that was completely OK. No problems. I always encouraged that with the AU.

Many years years later, someone who called themselves AK plagiarized one of my stories word for word, calling it his work. It was a story I'd taken offline as I reorganzied my site. He didn't even fix the spelling errors in my original. I called him on it. Told him to ask for permission in the future. But never heard from him again.

Not sure what happened... perhaps someone had assumed his identity, or perhaps he'd just changed, which we all do over time. But it was inexplicable and totally uncharacteristic for him to resort to rank plagiarism. Perhaps I was a bit harsh in my criticism at the time.

Shadar

d_k_c wrote: From what I gathered, or assumed, there were no legal issues. The whole thing simply came off as kind of awkward and embarrasing.

That being said, his writing style on SWM, IMO - never really matched that of the stories on his web site. And AK's web site had long become dormant before the contraversy. I might be grasping at straws here....but is it possible that AK isn't the AK we assumed him to be?

fats wrote: I'm going to move all posts talking about the issue of AK to a new thread this topic has become way off topic.

fats