One of the most popular voices on TikTok repeatedly steals the work of accomplished writers. How does she keep getting away with it?
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Both Laura and Mahr attempted to confront Grace for stealing their poems and faced the same fate. “I commented on the video and said ‘this is my poem,’ Immediately, I got blocked on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, and then I realized this isn’t going to go well,” Mahr explains. She then approached TikTok and Amazon separately with claims of intellectual property theft. Luckily, Mahr'sin 2020, while Grace’s book featuring the same poem was released in 2021.
Surely, there has to be a better solution to addressing plagiarism on such a large scale, right? Jonathan Bailey, a former poet and journalist, founded Unfortunately, these gaping limitations leave young poets and writers exposed to plagiarists like Grace who bank on a large social media following and continue to profit from popularity. “She has a lot of fans who defend her. Some of them don’t believe she has plagiarized anything and others don’t care that she has. Her books move them, so they still want to buy them regardless,” Laura adds.
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