Is Wattpad safe?

Question

I'm writing a book and would like to try uploading it to Wattbad so I can get some feedback, but I'm worried they might copy my story. Is this possible?

kleinelea1 · Answer

Sure, your text is online for everyone, of course someone can copy. Also read the terms of use of Wattpad, you may transfer the rights of use to them.

0naya0 · Answer

Sura. That's why I'm not charging up. But no matter where you upload your story or how you publish it, it can always be stolen. With Wattpad, the danger is simply greater

andrastor · Answer

Always fits as far as I have heard. But you won't get any feedback there. You have to network there like crazy and then (if at all) only get mucus.

hogwartsgirl311 · Answer

yes, but I have seen more often that in wattpad was a story and somewhere else from someone with other names, although the author said that she always has the same name.

mara2202 · Answer

daybreaker231 · Answer

As far as feedback is concerned, I always find Wattpad quite, because you get only small comments that are not really helpful, because I find Fanfiction.de better difficult.

Whether copied, you can't say so, but you can set it there that you can't just make it to copy it, so at least a kind of copy protection, although of course not 100% safe.

aroanida · Answer

Ideas of stories are not protected. For example, since Romeo and Juliet there have always been adaptations of the fabric. You can also assume that 10 authors: in the same basic idea 10 will make completely different stories. And what idea is so original that no other person in the world has ever had it?

Formulations are protected, and that is to be copied and to be output as your own is called plagiarism. If someone does that with your stories, you can show him.

But honestly, why would anyone do that? You cannot really earn money with stories, and even if they are so good that a publisher wants to buy them – the thief could not produce another equally good text. (If he could, he wouldn't have to steal).