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princesa: in btw my other name is charity, so am gonna keep my account ready just in case

Lol, enuf beef for Deifa o! Choi!

blueandred: No I don't think you should change the amount, its quite clear from the narrative that they are very rich even without tekena's biz, plus in serious bidding wars that's how the stakes are raised totally out of reach.

Blueandred, u totally got my drift but let's do this for the majority who think its outrageous.its all good.

nacksonjoe: @Repogirl kudos to u for ur great work.But I have point it out that Tikky 10m bidding for deifa was really outrageous as to compare with real life scenario because his company u mention was still young and pooling out dat kind of huge amount doesn't look real.Dats my observation welldone once again.

Aiiight, I'll bring it down to 5 million. That's quite reasonable, I guess but this guy is loaded o, remember he has a trustfund (maybe I forgot to write dat part) Deifa's dad set up for him and Deifa's dad was a well known billionaire business mogul (Think Dangote).

princesa: 100000 for Deifa
Abeg that girl has everything Jo
don't give her handsome Tikky too

Hmmm, does she have everything? She's an orophan remember?

princesa: whoa! 3:57am, you no dey sleep too

*vampire/ night crawler things*

princesa: thanks girl for making my day

*in btw, you write well, following the patterns of Mills and Boons, am sure you read that a lot?*

U welcome.yeah, I still read harlequin romances, I'm a sucker for romance stories.

For me I associate snobbery with Pride, thats all,but like you said there are some times snobbery could be used especiially to wade off annoying people.

I see u o, trixiebix, I see u.

Mayor46: This story make sense die and repogirl u rook,it feels lyk u should updating it every hour

Thanks mayor, I wish I could update every hour too. Wish there was a voice recognition software I could speak to instead of sitting down to type.

chinedumo: Snobbishness it good when you are very porpular. You cant relate with hundreds of people. That is natural

That's quite harsh, I dnt think one shld be a snob for any reason. Sometimes being reserved or introverted cld be mistaken for snobbery

luvmijeje: Repo,for u to arouse feeling at least in me that means u are a beautiful writer.
Back to the issue,do u still remember pink girls club and their criteria for u to join,is that not been snobbish?
Having A-class celebrities coming to ur functions,is that not been high taste?

Lol, okay you have some pOints there, I didn't see it that way. She has an exclusive club, yeah but she's still relatable, maybe you'll see that later.

kenny1795: 10mil seemz outrageouz. Bt d hx last word 2 dat model was d bomb

I said the guy was loaded earlier nao. Is it because he's still living in the family house? He has his own company o.
its fiction sha every is allowed.

Ice4jez: go girl u re gud.u neva fail us.

Thanks Ice, saw how u hyped me on the plagiarism thread. Feels good to be compared to umari. I'm a fan of her work.

chinedumo: If most females love that means they fantasize alot about chasing the man that turns them on. I wouldhave thought that women prefer it when men do the chasing

Seems you are calling luvmejee out for world war 4 now.
And yes, he's well to do, he has his own business and a trust fund his step dad set up for all the kids. (thought I mentioned that earlier).

luvmijeje: Repogirl if u notice most of the female posters luv why the guyz luv Deifa.
In my Opinion I ll tell u why,Deifa is just too perfect-most beautiful,rich,snobbish,high taste,has guyz at her fingertip,sexy and also has guyz bidding 10m naira just to spend a day with her! She is not an average girl,infact am jealous.

I beg to dis agree with you on Deifa, she isnt snobbish nao. She's hardworking, enterprising, Charitable and really soft hearted and the guys cant help but like her, its not her fault... But good thing you confessed your real issue with her...

Sparkle1: Love this story

Thanks Sparkle.

Eneze1: Nice one @repogirl you got me smiling to myself, thumps up for u

Thanks Eneze. Glad u enjoyed it.

okay? is it too unrealistic? I thought people wlda bn commentin by now.

And thats all folks, more on wedesday.

hay sal: Nice..keep em coming!! more ELBOW to your GREASE

lol... Thanks.

My weekend was really gud thanks......as for ur questions u'll have to wait a little while longer for answers
didn't u think d poem was kind of creepy?

good mawnin', hope y'all had a gr8 weekend? chapter 11 will be in three parts. All of which will be posted today. Part 2 comes out shortly. thanks.

The guy has appealed to my church mind, finally feeling sorry for him, I really do hope the writers whom you did wrong, feel same for you. I guess we've all learnt from this. Go and sin no more o.

fiolaP: am enjoyg the story,great work so far,

Thanks Fiola.

Ice4jez: repogirl my oga on top say make i greet u happy sunday oh and make i remind u of ur promise of monday as he no fit come since he dey nepa office dey settle with their oga on top for dat side.

Okay o, happy sunday to you too, make dem settle O abeg. I dey do my own here, make dem try too.

Pharoh: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

The way this issue has been approached by the writers in my opinion shows some level of ignorance I must say and hope no one is offended by my directness.

First I will begin by saying I sympathize with you guys that your work has been plagiarized and you must have toiled very hard to produce these stories.

I feel it is important at this point to clarify some issues and point at the direction each and every one of you should follow whenever there is a future reoccurrence of this kind of situation.

WRITERS COPYRIGHT RIGHT

Nigeria is a signatory to the Berne Convention so therefore you do not need a registration to claim full ownership to your created original works.
Once you have transmitted your work to a platform or medium of distribution to the public then you automatically acquire the right to your works and every territory where the Berne convention is in place.

You lose this right when you agree to any medium or platform requires you to give up those rights vested on you under the Berne Convention. You also give up this right when you sign agreements with a publishing firm or transfer this right to someone else.
I don’t know why you people are attacking seun as he was magnanimous enough not to take this right away from you through the nairaland privacy policy or requiring any form of user agreement before using this forum that would have required you to give up those copyright.

ABOUT NAIRALAND COPYRIGHT POLICY

“COPYRIGHT NOTICE - All content posted on the message boards of Paradox is the exclusive intellectual property of Paradox. Copyright ownership of that content resides with Paradox and the Company is free to use any of the content as they wish. Anyone other than Paradox seeking to reprint, republish, or reproduce content posted on the Paradox message boards must receive the express written permission from Paradox Interactive. By posting on the Paradox message boards you are agreeing to the above and relinquishing all copyright to the contents of the post(s) to Paradox.”

The above is an example of a copyright agreement you will find in some message boards or forums and it is usually embedded in the privacy policy or user agreement that is signed when registering to the website.

Luckily for every one of us, nairaland does not have anything of such, so we all have full rights to whatever thing we post here on nairaland and that goes for all your stories provided they are not copyrighted materials.

If you post copyrighted materials here illegally and the original creator finds it here then the rightful thing they do is to inform nairaland of this issue. The owner of administrator of nairaland will delete those comments and place your handle on a ban.

They can also go ahead to require seun to give them your private information through a court order or without a court order if you have given seun the right to use your private information through a user agreement.

RIGHT OF ACTION IN CASES LIKE THIS

I noticed that everyone has been disturbing seun and the moderator to do something about this issue but in truth they absolutely should not do anything concerning the request being made of them. The best they can do is to ban offending members, delete posts, investigate and reveal private information or cooperate with a court process.
The copyright notice at the bottom of this site is more focused on the programing code used to build nairaland, the graphics, features and various designs found all over nairaland. This same copyright could have extended to forum post if we all gave up those rights in the terms of service, privacy policy or user agreements when registering to Nairaland.

Nairaland is not a publishing house and posting your stories here does not transfer any form of ownership to seun and therefore he is not under any form of obligation to go to beyond nairaland to help you guys as his powers are limited to nairaland based on the various agreements found here.

The truth is that you guys retained full ownership to your works, they are already protected by posting it here on nairaland and should you find it anywhere else on the web without reference then it is your duty to go after the infringement yourself.
It is not the duty of nairaland moderators or seun to go to Facebook and ask them to bring it down as they are not the owner of those works but you guys. Putting a copyright notice or disclaimer with your work is actually not needed under the Berne convention and you only do that so people like the offender will not claim ignorance.

You are good to go by showing them your written works on a producing platform like a word document or showing them the difference in date between the post on nairaland and Facebook. You can also register your works and notify NCC so that you can get a certificate of ownership and this serves as a legal proof should you need that but it is not actually required to obtain copyright for your works or prosecute cases.

So please this post is just trying to point it out to you guys that the onus to protect your works rests solely on you guys as you are the original creators and still retain full rights to your works even if they have been posted here on nairaland.

If you post your works on naijapals originally and you find it here on nairaland without reference then you have the right to inform seun about this to delete the post and ban the poster and request for personal information to prosecute the case. That is the way the owner of a work goes about issues like this, so in this case and for future purposes . . .it is your job to go against the offender yourself and not nairaland, the moderator or seun.

Now i expect you guys to be angry with me by focusing on the writers only but here is it . . seun can be of help to you guys because he benefits one way or the order from you guys posting stories here so i will not expect him to leave you guys solely to fight this issues alone.

Love you guys and kudos to the wonderful stories you post here. . more grease to your elbows. I sympathize with you guys but it is important we know our rights and how to go about this from now on.
I can answer more questions if there is any and post links to copyright materials for you guys to read yourselves.

Regards
Pharoh

Thankyou Pharoh,
Been reading on this copywrite thingy on the net and came across THE BERNE CONVENTION too.

Under the Convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in force upon their creation without being asserted or declared. An author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work and to any derivative works, unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them or until the copyright expires. Foreign authors are given the same rights and privileges to copyrighted material as domestic authors in any country that signed the Convention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works

In other words, once a writer has posted his work online Or purblished on any any medium, for people to read, he already owns the rights to it as far as he is the original author. The need to register helps you get compensation if your rights have been infringed upon and this can be done at any time.
Like Efemina said, you should endeavour to issue a warning/ disclaimer at the beginning of each post warning people off because you already own the rights to your story once you've posted it online.
So anyone who wants to su'e the guy, please do so freely. I dey your back.

001solar: Wat a story. I can just believe i can enjoy dis story just like dis! Cos it is something very different from all those i ve being reading online which is all about sex and all dat. U r doing a gr8 job i must tell u and i wuld so much love it if u can keep it up and may u could make it up 4 all those movie producers. Once again gud work.



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Wow, thanks a lot, I'm actually grinning from ear to ear, movies? wow? Thanks a lot, well appreciated.

kenny1795: izukwu z a regular @ d sexuality room... I gues u knw d action he meanz#winks#... Lol on a serious note his right. There wasnt any mind blowin moment in d episode

lol, okay, got you guys but every scene has a purpose behind it, might not be mindblowing but theres a reason behind it. Thanks.

Now this is more like an apology, grovel and beg well well . ......

shadowzy: Haha i no get choice na i love it!! we need more MORE MORE!!!

lol okay, more on monday.