DMCA Notice

#15
by FrostKitten - opened

To nyuuzyou,

This is an official notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"). I'm sending you this notice in good faith and with reasonable belief that my rights as the copyright holder have been violated.

I have been notified that you, nyuuzyou, have scraped public works from Archive of Our Own without the permission of the authors and hosted here on HuggingFace. This is copyright infringement. Among the scraped works in your AO3 dataset is one I have authored, Investigation: Gotham (Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61519558).

You will remove my work from your dataset immediately. I have not given you permission to use ANY of my works, in whole or in part, for AI training, or to be part of a dataset intended to train AI. I have not and never will give this permission. Any of my other works that may have been manually downloaded and added to the dataset (works with the author FrostKitten) are also to be removed immediately.

On a personal note, your scraping and collection of this data is disgusting. You stated that you believed the DMCA from AO3 was "unfounded," but you have stolen millions of public, free works created by people who do so as a labor of love. I have studied story and writing for nearly two decades and I have written more than half a million words to hone my craft. I provide this work for free entertainment and personal enjoyment, not so a thief like you can steal it. People like you are why the rest of my works are restricted from public access, and why this fic now has to be restricted as well. People like you are also why so few people support AI--none of you know what ethics are. I sincerely hope to see this dataset deleted, and that you learn to respect the artists and writers you've stolen from.

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