| beadyeyes |
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Jul 8, 10, 11:17AM
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Does anybody know of a North American-based custom writing service which transfers the copyright to you? This feature is important to me, as I cannot otherwise be certain that the essay will not be reused. In addition, a transfer of copyright would be especially appropriate in my case because I will be providing the outline/ideas/sources for the essay. Thanks.
Since I DO know of at least one UK writing service that offers copyright transfer, I'm assuming there will be US companies which offer this as well. Please advise.
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| WritersBeware |
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Jul 8, 10, 12:44PM
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beadyeyes: Does anybody know of a North American-based custom writing service which transfers the copyright to you?
No. That is downright illegal. Any site that advertises copyright transfer is almost certainly NOT American, regardless of what the owners may falsely claim.
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| beadyeyes |
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Jul 8, 10, 03:44PM
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Illegal? That's interesting. By the same token, wouldn't they have to cite the outline you provided? I guess e-mailing a customer is not considered a form of publishing.
Anyway, I guess what I'm looking for is the assurance that the essay I get won't be used again or even be borrowed from for some future paper.
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| FreelanceWriter |
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beadyeyes: Anyway, I guess what I'm looking for is the assurance that the essay I get won't be used again or even be borrowed from for some future paper.
If you're willing to trust them to honor their formal transfer of copyright to you, why wouldn't you just trust their explicit promise never to reuse your paper without a formal transfer of rights? It would be just as easy to lie about it either way and you'd be very unlikely ever to know they breached the agreement, especially if they waited months before reselling it.
Promises, contracts, and laws in general don't do much to protect you; they just give you statutory rights that you have to pursue on your own after a breach (or other wrong). Do you really plan to scour the Internet forever looking for a violation of your copyright so that you can then file a claim in court against a company and also make your use of their service public record in the process?
All the sites that use me all resell papers but they wait at least 3-4 months to do so except one, and that site charges more partly because of that (I assume) as well as because they specialize in PhD-level dissertations.
My advice is not to worry about copyrights and just go with a legitimate U.S. site that delivers a good product and won't rip you off. If you research carefully enough on this forum, you should be able to identify several. Good luck.
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| beadyeyes |
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Jul 8, 10, 04:28PM
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FreelanceWriter: If you're willing to trust them to honor their formal transfer of copyright to you, why wouldn't you just trust their explicit promise never to reuse your paper without a formal transfer of rights?
Hey FW, I just sent you a message!
Is this what they actually promise? Not all companies state this...
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Jul 8, 10, 04:43PM
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beadyeyes: Is this what they actually promise? Not all companies state this...
Phd-dissertations is the only company I know of that promises not to resell your paper. The other sites with which I'm familiar don't make any explicit promise but I know that their policy is always to wait 3-4 months and that their TOS/contract mentions that they have the right to resell the work. They wait as a courtesy, not because they're legally obligated to do so.
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| kiki0817 |
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Oct 1, 10, 10:31AM
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Sorry for the stupid question but I need to make sure to get the right company.
Is Phd-dissertations FW mentioned the same as http://www.phd-dissertations.com/ ?
Thanks!
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