User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/what is this I don't even.../@comment-995908-20111205052245

Okay, how's this?

I am representing the Sonic Fanon Wiki, a wiki site for people to share their Sonic fanfiction ideas.

There are people attempting to make money off of the ideas and concepts of not only the gaming mega-corporation SEGA, but also the concepts created by people ranging from teens to young adults. Wikia is not only turning a blind eye to this issue, they may even be responsible.

There are books being sold on Amazon.com that contain many, many articles from Sonic Fanon Wiki. Many of these books contain characters created by a single user of SFW; this book is one such example.

Amazon’s not the only place selling these books; Barnes & Noble, Abe Books.com, wantitall.com, alibris.com and most likely many other sites are selling these books.

And Sonic Fanon Wiki is not the only target; Fantendo Wiki, the Nintendo Fanon wiki, is another one of the possibly countless victims of this crime.

Now some may argue that we at SFW are the ones plagiarizing, seeing as how there are articles of SEGA canon characters on there, but we aren’t claiming said characters as our own; the articles are just to show how they appear in other peoples’ fanfiction. The real problem is with the fanon characters that people have created. Yes, some of them are crossover characters based on existing characters from other franchises (such as Albus the Cat) but we make sure to acknowledge those existing franchises, and not claim them as our own. We are also not making money off of these characters; the publishers of these books are. And we don’t even know if they’re giving credit to the original creators.

In the eyes of SFW’s community, this is a very serious issue, and I’m happy you’ve taken the time to read this e-mail and understand our plight.