Giving Credit is NOT Enough!

HatedLove6: What do you mean by "non-copyright" category? Link?

Rando: I think it's under creative commons (cc)

HatedLove6: Did the original writers say these stories were under creative commons or that other people were allowed to repost these stories with no permission granted?

Hun: Some are under creative commons while some are non-copyright.

What the heck does she mean by "non-copyright"? She also just latched onto some person who suggested an answer, even if it wasn't the right answer. At this point I am just done with this person and taking off the nice gloves because I know this person did not ask, I am sure these stories are copyrighted, and they are either deceiving themselves into believing that this is OK or they are just trying to give me the turnaround. I click to her published section, find the anthology of short stories, heart it, and see that all of the stories that were credited came from Reddit, with a direct link to their profile. This is even more ridiculous than if there was no credit, or an unknown credit, because they had access to their profile, but they didn't reach out to them and ask for permission. I sent each and every one a short message asking them if this person obtained permission, and if not I linked to the story. I left it up to them if they wanted to file a DMCA.

HatedLove6: I would like to see for myself where these writers say their stories are under creative commons or public domain.

Hun: Link #1
Link #2

These links were to articles that gathered short horror stories, some of which found on Reddit. Hun even kept them in the same order in her anthology. The links were not to Reddit or to the thread where people posted their short horror stories, nor to a place where these writers claimed their short horror stories were under creative commons or public domain. Neither of these links held an explanation to "non-copyright" as if that is a thing. Non-copyright is not a thing! Either it's public domain, it's copyrighted, or there are some stipulations in order to use it through licensing.

HatedLove6: Those are articles written by professional writers who have more than likely obtained their permission, and if they haven't they are also infringing on their copyrights. I've taken a look at the threads where these stories are first posted and the writers who posted these stories have not declared that their stories are creative commons nor public domain. You may also have infringed on the rights of the people who collected these stories for their own article.

I checked with one of the people who replied to my Reddit message, and in fact, the writer of the article did not obtain permission, so that's a shame. It still doesn't make what Hun did right.

Hun: ok I did not know that.... I'll delete it

She then deleted her comment linking to the articles, and she edited her last comment to just say "ok I did not know that...," not saying she would delete it which raised red flags.

QuoteV has this weird feature where if you heart a story, you can still see the story even when you're blocked, which, yes, she blocked me. No regrets here. The story stayed up for a few hours more, but she eventually deleted it, either because of our conversation or after the writers of the short horror stories sent her a message. I don't know if anyone else sent her a message.

Aside from that debacle, I understand that copyright can be confusing, so let me explain in further detail the differences between copyrights and why giving credit instead of gaining permission isn't enough to save you. Please note that I am not a lawyer, and this is the best of my knowledge regarding intellectual property laws in the US. I am not giving you legal advice.