Material bought as use license, treated as full rights
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Material bought as use license, treated as full rights
Just wondering -- I have had the same person buy two of my articles under the usage license, but when I found one of them on their website, it was as if the articles had been purchased it as full rights. The text was changed (actually, more truncated than changed) and my name had been removed. It says in the customer FAQs that "appropriate actions will be taken" if a customer does this. What does that mean? Also, since this person is buying the same type of stuff, is there any way to block them from buying at usage price but to allow them to buy at full rights?
Use articles used as Full Rights
I have had the same thing happen recently. It also appears that the client plagiarized part of another article listed for sale in my content. 
Additionally the customer tried to get me to circumvent CC and submit work to him directly. At first I just thought he was ignorant of protocol: I'm now thinking he's just a sleaze.
Email to the client requesting he resolve the issue (and follow the use license) as well as provide my byline have gone unanswered. Two of my articles are on his site now - altered. A third is very similar to another I have in my content listings.
I'm hoping CC responds to my inquiry soon and gets this guy handled so he isn't doing the same to other writers. To make it worse, the guy had trouble purchasing the article, so CC took it off my available content while it was manually processed. This was a week ago and it still is not appearing back in my listings, nor have I been credited for the sale.
All the while, the guy is using my words (albiet altered) for a cheap use license that he isn't following. I now see why some writer's are so careful to only show 1/3 of the article and price things higher.
Additionally the customer tried to get me to circumvent CC and submit work to him directly. At first I just thought he was ignorant of protocol: I'm now thinking he's just a sleaze.
Email to the client requesting he resolve the issue (and follow the use license) as well as provide my byline have gone unanswered. Two of my articles are on his site now - altered. A third is very similar to another I have in my content listings.
I'm hoping CC responds to my inquiry soon and gets this guy handled so he isn't doing the same to other writers. To make it worse, the guy had trouble purchasing the article, so CC took it off my available content while it was manually processed. This was a week ago and it still is not appearing back in my listings, nor have I been credited for the sale.
All the while, the guy is using my words (albiet altered) for a cheap use license that he isn't following. I now see why some writer's are so careful to only show 1/3 of the article and price things higher.
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Celeste Stewart
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Looks like the guy is buying usage and treating as full rights for sure -- he probably doesn't know any better - going for the cheap price. Not that ignorance is an excuse. Hopefully CC will straighten him out and he'll upgrade his licences for you guys. Otherwise, he'll be in for a big surprise when other customers buy the same content and suddenly he has trouble with Google and duplicate content issues.