Do You Sell Your Copyrights

@VinayaG (550)
Kathmandu, Nepal
December 29, 2015 5:59pm CST
Do you feel comfortable to sell your copyrights and approve someone using his/her name as a writer on the article/essay/story/poem which you wrote? I sometimes sell my exclusive rights for money.
2 responses
paigea
@paigea (36317)
• Canada
30 Dec 15
I have never sold my copyright. I am not sure what that means. When I write a report for a mystery shopping company they own that report. I have done the work for them and been paid by them. When I write a piece for Zemandi, same thing - they pay me and they own it.
Vinaya Ghimire
@VinayaG (550)
• Kathmandu, Nepal
1 Jan 16
by selling copyrights I mean you forfeit the rights to the work you created
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paigea
@paigea (36317)
• Canada
1 Jan 16
@VinayaG Well I do forfeit the rights to the reports I write. I don't even keep a copy; it doesn't belong to me. The same for the articles for Zemandi. I keep a copy in case they ask for edits, but the work belongs to them. Is that what you mean?
Vinaya Ghimire
@VinayaG (550)
• Kathmandu, Nepal
1 Jan 16
@paigea yes.since you cannot claim your own work as yours, you are selling your rights.
Ronald Franklin
@RonElFran (1214)
• Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
30 Dec 15
I don't think I'd want to have someone else's name on a piece I wrote. That seems less than honest to me. I'd be ok with it having no byline.
Vinaya Ghimire
@VinayaG (550)
• Kathmandu, Nepal
1 Jan 16
but what about selling copyrights for money?