my associated content article is on another page...
By hcromer
@hcromer (2710)
United States
January 24, 2008 3:44pm CST
I suppose this is one time that I should kick myself for not reading the fine print on Associated Content, but it appears that they have sold an article that I wrote about the O Winston Link museum in Roanoke, VA to a photography website. I just happened to be searching my own name to see if a lot of stuff would come up and I was pretty surprised to see that. My pen name on AC is not my real name, however, my real name was posted as author of the article on their site. It's a little annoying to hear that an article that they said did not deserve payment has been sold by them to another website. It's not THAT big of a deal with this particular article, but there is at least one that I have written that I do not want put out there by another site and with my real name on it, that is why I use a pen name after all. Have any of you noticed your work being sold to another site?
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@gtargirl (5376)
• United States
24 Jan 08
Thanks for the heads up, my friend. I did read a little bit about how AC could post our articles on another website but I was not aware they were selling them. Shouldn't you have gotten a cut of that? I'll have to find out about my own articles. Maybe you should try to contact AC to make sure they don't use your real name. Anyway, thanks again. Good luck.
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@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
24 Jan 08
I wasn't aware of this happening. It doesn't seem right that they should be able to sell our articles if we retain the reprint rights to them! I'll have to keep my eyes open, or stop writing for them if they are pulling a fast one on us!
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@gtargirl (5376)
• United States
24 Jan 08
Hey JillBeth, I agree with you. I'm looking into it right now.
@kareng (61152)
• United States
11 Feb 08
That is where submitting the articles as exclusive will keep this from happening. Interesting!
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
26 Jan 08
Yep, my articles have landed in tons of weird places. I fully understand your issues with it; helps in page views for me sometimes when the other place links to my story;that and I publish under my real name any way and don't publish anything I would not want to be under my real name.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
14 Feb 08
Wow, I didn't know they could do that. I use a pen name too because sometimes I write about issues that I don't want others to know I write about (like gay rights). That is really wrong if they never even paid you for the article.
If they tell me they aren't going to pay me for an article, I always just scrap it out or re-write it. They are never getting any free articles from me.
@ultimatemoneyblog (15)
• United States
8 Mar 08
That is crazy. I use a pen name too, and I wouldn't want people knowing it's me writing what I did. Not that anything I wrote was bad, but still. That's the whole point of using a pen name!
