Unique Content and My Name

[Drew]

Being new here, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. I just sold my first article through CC as a "unique" license. As I understand, that means my name is supposed to stay with the article wherever it is used? I googled it and my name is NOT with the article...
This is somewhat of an important issue to me and part of why I look forward to writing here. I suppose the few extra dollars for the full license would be acceptable, but I'm actually hoping to sell more of the unique-s so I can get my name "out there" and get formal credit for my published writings, and have that as a verifiable credential for my resume.

[Abbamay]

I think you're supposed to contact CC to let them know, and they check up on it for you. Hopefully if I'm wrong the other forum members will jump in here and correct me.

Hope it works out for you.

Abba

[EFowler]

Yep, contact CC and they should contact the buyer for you. It's happened twice to me, the first time they sorted it, the second time they didn't even respond to my emails. Good luck!

[gators18]

Unique is a one time only sale. That's why it's unique. The only difference between that and full is they can't make changes or remove your name.

I'm not sure if this is something you can DMCA for, but you're definitely within your rights to contact the site owner directly and insist that they comply with the licensing agreement.

[PowerWriter]

can't make changes or remove your name.

How do you make sure that your name is included when a customer buys an article from you? I saw someone say that you need to include your name by the title when you submit it, but I checked the guidelines and it says "Submissions must not include sig lines, bios, or author contact info"

[jak]

I always start my articles with the title and my byline underneath. If you don't include your byline the customer can't use it, whatever rights they buy.

[gators18]

can't make changes or remove your name.

How do you make sure that your name is included when a customer buys an article from you? I saw someone say that you need to include your name by the title when you submit it, but I checked the guidelines and it says "Submissions must not include sig lines, bios, or author contact info"

Submit like this...

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The Fox
By PowerWriter

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

What they don't want is "PowerWriter is a dedicated animal writer with over 20 years of experience. When PowerWriter isn't writing, PowerWriter is canoeing."

Then you just need to search for your content on the web to make sure they complied with the license. For unique, it must be word for word exactly the same as what you put in CC's submission box.

[PowerWriter]

I always start my articles with the title and my byline underneath. If you don't include your byline the customer can't use it, whatever rights they buy.

Weird. I've had all of my articles accepted and sold without a byline. I'm not too worried since I've sold all of them so far for full rights. Should I take down the ones I have up and resubmit them with a byline?

[PowerWriter]

can't make changes or remove your name.

How do you make sure that your name is included when a customer buys an article from you? I saw someone say that you need to include your name by the title when you submit it, but I checked the guidelines and it says "Submissions must not include sig lines, bios, or author contact info"

Submit like this...

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The Fox
By PowerWriter

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

What they don't want is "PowerWriter is a dedicated animal writer with over 20 years of experience. When PowerWriter isn't writing, PowerWriter is canoeing."

Then you just need to search for your content on the web to make sure they complied with the license. For unique, it must be word for word exactly the same as what you put in CC's submission box.

Thank you for your explanation!

[Pellucidean]

Thanks for the information Gators, that's very helpful. I wish CC would make clear that you can include a byline. Without it the option for selling for unique rights seems almost pointless. I've had one unique sale that was posted without my name, but now I see the buyer did nothing wrong… I'll be including a byline from now on, but I wish I'd known you could do that before now.