Plagiarized plot summaries

@jeorj_euler​

It's this person. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?sort=alpha,asc&plot_author=lament

For example, he copied this plot summary from the Something Weird Video website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210901125435/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066055/

(nudity) https://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=20796

This one has recently shown up on his page, although he may have simply added his name to what was already there.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083139/

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022627/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083139/

Hello ind3,

Thanks for reporting! We have investigated the reported Plot Summaries and have taken appropriate steps to help prevent the ongoing violations.

@Fran​

Thanks, but I keep finding more stolen summaries. The adult titles aren't displayed on his page, so I don't know how many more were added. Unless this person can prove ownership of any of them, they should all be deleted. It's not realistic to keep deleting them piecemeal.

231119-091014-202000

231119-075310-505000

231119-073153-066000

231119-070524-768000

231119-065855-590000

231119-065324-759000

For example, this summary is plagiarized from this website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201026190904/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458687/

https://robertmonell.blogspot.com/2009/07/

This is listed on the back of the DVD cover.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190910095824/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179302/

https://www.adultdvdmarketplace.com/dvd_view_143971.html

Edit:

Why are these continuously being accepted?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1353100/plotsummary/

https://letterboxd.com/film/naked-pleasures/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109421/plotsummary/

https://en.notrecinema.com/communaute/v1_detail_film.php3?lefilm=35134

https://web.archive.org/web/20170331172821/https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?plot_author=lament&view=simple&sort=alpha&ref_=tt_stry_pl

@ind3​ Hi! Have you seen this happen only on adult titles?

@Bethanny​

If you're referring to the ongoing plagiarism, he's continuing to add plot summaries to non-adult titles as well, as you can see in the examples above. Keep in mind, this has been an ongoing issue for at least five years. To take a cynical approach, "[A]ppropriate steps to help prevent the ongoing violations." seems to indicate that you can't or won't actually stop this person and that the staff was aware of what was happening, as I've been deleting or correcting the summaries on and off for years. I asked how many summaries were added, and the answer seems to be several thousand.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46303197/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170331172821/http://www.imdb.com/search/title?plot_author=lament&view=simple&sort=alpha&ref_=tt_stry_pl

At one point, there were more than a thousand titles listed on the above page. Were they all deleted? It looks like his byline was simply removed from them, and most of the summaries were retained. The guide states: "Things you shouldn't do: Copy from other locations - plots must be your original work & all copyrighted material is excluded from the plot summaries database." Apparently this isn't true, because these summaries keep showing up.

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/plots/G56STCKTK7ESG7CP#summary

The problem is that it may be hard to prove plagiarism, since we won't necessarily know that the plot outlines appearing in various places across crowd-sourced parts of the Web aren't from the same source (or that something didn't publicly originate on IMDb before being copied therefrom onto other places), and even outside of crowd-sourcing, there is nothing stopping a studio or a distributor from spreading around its original work. I used to take action upon plot outlines shared by both IMDb and CVMC (or other movie information websites), and I gave up on account of uncertainty, at least in regards to plot outlines that were not personally authored by me.

@jeorj_euler​

It's true that once a plot summary is listed on the IMDb, it can often be very difficult to determine the source. This is especially true if someone has reworded the summary or translated it from another language. Almost all of the plot summaries that I've deleted or corrected from the above contributor were either clearly plagiarized from the DVD covers or were listed on other sites before they were added here, even if they originated somewhere else. This summary, for example, was taken from this review years after it was published.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201109031249/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194635/

https://vareverta.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/3-a-m-1975-the-passion-of-the-spliced/

As far as I can tell, this person simply doesn't write anything himself other than to tack on one or two sentences to someone else's work. The reason that I found these summaries in the first place is because this is clearly the same person who was and is corrupting the cast credits on these titles.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/corruption-of-cast-credits/6448691638c43b5a022d83bb

@ind3​ Thanks for that! I have deleted all the plots, it will take a little for the changes to be live on the site because of the amount.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​

Thanks, but these keep showing up.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15660402/plotsummary/

https://melies.org/film/no-hay-fantasmas/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15660402/fullcredits/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30128023/plotsummary/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30128023/fullcredits/

(sexual nudity) https://wilfmovies.com/movies/the-taste-of-next-door-sister-2019-2/

@ind3​ Already deleted, those just took a little longer.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​

Thanks. I just realized that the adult titles can be displayed. A number of the summaries are still on the site, although not all of these are hardcore.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?adult=include&plot_author=lament

vs.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?plot_author=lament

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28564048/plotsummary/

https://letterboxd.com/film/vagrant-2023/

https://www.moviefone.com/movie/taong-grasa/5i6yL289kTafLoaN5Q9Ua4/main/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1443560/plotsummary/

https://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-194277/

https://www-sensacine-com.translate.goog/peliculas/pelicula-194277/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087413/plotsummary/

https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film668845.html

https://www-filmaffinity-com.translate.goog/es/film668845.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29533-historia-sexual-de-o?language=es

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2270896/plotsummary/

https://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/toedliche-versuchung,5281480,ApplicationMovie.html

https://www-tvspielfilm-de.translate.goog/kino/filmarchiv/film/toedliche-versuchung,5281480,ApplicationMovie.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

231126-030001-307000

(This may be from a different contributor.) 231122-231822-836000

231205-124512-670000

This person also plagiarizes. I've deleted several of the summaries since they were copied from the distributor's website. For example: 230815-083413-377000 (Many of the summaries contain graphic language.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20240604/plotsummary/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18925960/plotsummary/

Due to the volume of summaries, it's difficult to be certain that they are all plagiarized, but it looks like most of them are.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?sort=alpha,asc&adult=include&plot_author=mrs.%20x

@ind3​ Hi!

Thanks, I have created a ticket to check on the user mentioned above to clean any plagiarized plots, reference number V1128202173.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​

Thanks. If you mean this person, then basically everything is plagiarized.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?sort=moviemeter,asc&adult=include&plot_author=mrs.%20x

For example:

231127-122801-633000

Everything that this person adds is stolen from other sites. For example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170208095741/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223417/

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki,[2], the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anaesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anaesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.[6]

6. ^ Synopsis based on Weisser, p.102.

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/5541105

https://books.google.com/books/about/Japanese_Cinema_Encyclopedia.html?id=D-U3AAAAMAAJ

Even the user review was plagiarized.

231126-211421-726004

231127-082115-489000

231127-083049-182000

231127-085126-305000

231127-094832-200000

231127-203126-122000

231127-203731-906000

231127-204346-319000

231127-212010-957000

231127-212249-024000

231127-212511-879000

231128-220225-694000

231128-220848-444000

I have a few questions. Can you delete the rest of the summaries? Why do they keep showing up?

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?adult=include&plot_author=lament

Why does his page still list 1000+ plot summaries?

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46303197/

@ind3​ Hi! I believe I mentioned in my previous comment I had done a ticket to have the summaries cleaned up, that is not solved yet I will keep you posted. 

@Bethanny​

Thanks. I thought that you were referring to the second person. Due the nature of the summaries, I can understand that you may not want to look through them.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?sort=moviemeter,asc&adult=include&plot_author=mrs.%20x

Whether the existing summaries are deleted tomorrow or in a month doesn't really matter. The problem is simply that these keep showing up along with the corrupted cast lists which I reported in this thread.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/corruption-of-cast-credits/6448691638c43b5a022d83bb

From Fran:

"We have investigated the reported Plot Summaries and have taken appropriate steps to help prevent the ongoing violations."

Then why do both the summaries and the cast changes keep showing up?

For example:

231130-212941-983000

https://imgur.com/a/vrOxoAP

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28796533/plotsummary/ ???

231130-211558-635000 Kevin and Pam, a married couple struggling to have a child because of his infertility. Out of frustration, he turns to different women to satisfy his sexual desires which she eventually finds out. But instead of splitting up, they travel to Switzerland for his business and agree to try open-marriage during their stay. They meet a Swiss couple, Cyrus and Pam who has lifestyle relationship and attend swingers club with them. There she meets a Swiss man, Simon, who also is in an open marriage. They start having an affair.

lament

A married couple struggling to have a child of their own. Out of frustration, Kevin turns to different women to satisfy his sexual desires which Pam eventually finds out. But instead of splitting up, the two move to Switzerland and agree to have an open-marriage arrangement, resulting in Pam having an affair with a Swiss man.

https://www.moviefone.com/movie/swing/0Sa5QqNdLbfDUA9C6N5Mo2/main/

231128-222757-966000 After the death of Andrea's wife, Daniela who was the matriarch of once rich and influential aristocratic Caroli family, her nearly bankrupt family decides to hold a seance in their decrepit castle and contact her spirit. Unfortunately, they contact instead the malicious and possibly demonic spirit of their evil, hedonistic and decadent late cousin Lucrezia that, after assaulting and messing a bit with those present at the summoning, ends up possessing Andrea's and dead woman's virginal teenage daughter Bimba. Bimba suddenly becomes overtly sexual and starts acting out in a completely unhinged, aggressive and sexually provocative manner in front of her family and their guests, all while brutally insulting them. She tries to satisfy her confusing demonic urges with masturbation but quickly moves on to seducing those around her, starting with her deathly ill uncle Adolfo, who's unable to stop her from performing fellatio on him which leads to his death during the incestuous act. Meanwhile, his buxom young wife and Bimba's aunt Nais looks for sexual satisfaction in Giorgio, who hangs around the castle. However, unsatisfied with his s&m play, she seduces her brother-in-law Andrea instead. When Bimba discovers this, she tries to seduce her father herself but he rejects her in disgust and calls a psychiatrist who concludes that she is just acting out her grief over her mother's death. Adolfo's nurse, a beautiful nun Sofia becomes the next target of Bimba's lust. Can Sofia save Bimba from the evil spirit or will Bimba's lust consume Sofia as well?

lament

https://web.archive.org/web/20180405143907/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079512/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210224200529/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079512/

After the matriarch of once rich and influential aristocratic Caroli family dies, her nearly bankrupt family decides to hold a seance in their decrepit castle and contact her spirit. Unfortunately, they contact instead the malicious and possibly demonic spirit of their evil, hedonistic and decadent late cousin Lucrezia that, after assaulting and messing a bit with those present at the summoning, ends up possessing the dead woman's virginal teenage daughter Bimba. Bimba suddenly becomes overtly sexual and starts acting out in a completely unhinged, aggressive and sexually provocative manner in front of her family and their guests, all while brutally insulting them. She tries to satisfy her confusing demonic urges with masturbation but quickly moves on to seducing those around her, starting with her deathly ill uncle Adolfo, who's unable to stop her from performing fellatio on him which leads to his death during the incestuous act. Meanwhile, his buxom young wife and Bimba's aunt Nais looks for sexual satisfaction in Giorgio, who hangs around the castle. However, unsatisfied with his s&m play, she seduces her brother-in-law Andrea (Bimba's father and Adolfo's brother) instead. When Bimba discovers this, she tries to seduce her father herself but he rejects her in disgust and calls a psychiatrist who concludes that Bimba is just acting out her grief over her mother's death. Adolfo's nurse, a beautiful nun called Sister Sofia becomes the next target of Bimba's lust. Can Sofia save Bimba from the evil spirit or will Bimba's lust consume Sofia as well?

Владимир А

https://rarefilmfinder.blogspot.com/2018/01/malabimba-malicious-whore-1979.html

(This may even have originated elsewhere.)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TI5dMwEGUREJ:www.vidtapes.com/video/871/malabimba-1979&sca_esv=586873451&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

I'm not being impatient, but as you can see it's frustrating to keep fixing what is clearly preventable.

@Bethanny​

The problem at this point is that he's stealing other people's summaries by changing the byline, while continuing to add plagiarism. Please add this information and these examples to the open ticket.

(stolen)

231206-062337-235000

231202-085457-076000

231202-050230-088000

https://shellacfilms.com/international-sales/that-kind-of-summer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064660/

231207-001918-520000

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metti,_una_sera_a_cena

https://web.archive.org/web/20120226140509/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metti%2C_una_sera_a_cena

https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Metti,_una_sera_a_cena?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

(plagiarized)

231206-065516-874000

231206-064715-654000

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13857556/

https://deadline.com/2022/11/candy-land-horror-thriller-from-ida-red-team-acquired-by-quiver-1235170096/

231207-025821-870000

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15500446/

https://www.motelx.org/edicoes-anteriores/download-programa-pdf/21

https://imdb.com/review/rw8503634/

231211-130300-194000

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065915/

https://www.unifrance.org/film/5958/je-suis-une-nymphomane

https://www-unifrance-org.translate.goog/film/5958/je-suis-une-nymphomane?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

https://web.archive.org/web/20131119004936/https://www.unifrance.org/film/5958/je-suis-une-nymphomane

231207-001918-520000

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064660/

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metti,_una_sera_a_cena

https://web.archive.org/web/20120226140509/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metti%2C_una_sera_a_cena

https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Metti,_una_sera_a_cena?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp%E2%80%9D

@ind3​

Just adding some more examples for the ticket.

231208-131424-827000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_(1991_film)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230321114511/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_(1991_film)

231210-204857-778000

231210-205342-876000

231212-141038-093000

231212-141656-746000

https://mydramalist.com/19314-affair

https://web.archive.org/web/20171019214006/http://mydramalist.com/19314-affair

@Bethanny​

It's been nearly a year now, although his page still lists 1000+ plot summaries.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46303197

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?adult=include&plot_author=lament&sort=alpha,asc

Were they deleted and the number on his user page is simply incorrect or are there still 1000+ summaries listed anonymously?

@ind3​

Bump.