Question 1

01 | What am I buying?

amandasalisbury · Accepted Answer

You are buying our services to research, write, or both.

Typically, the contract between you and us will grant you a license to use our original work. The contract will detail the rights we license to you and limitations (if any) on how you can use the licensed work. We work with you to set licensing rights and limitations.

These are some licensing rights and limitations that we typically use in our contracts:

The license might not expire.
You might have to credit us as creators.
You might be restricted from using original characters and other elements protected by law.

The license might not expire.
You might have to credit us as creators.
You might be restricted from using original characters and other elements protected by law.

Question 2

05 | Can I buy all the rights to your work?

amandasalisbury · Accepted Answer

Yes if we agree. We can choose to sell you some, all, or none of the rights related to our original work. Typically, when you buy our services we will grant you a license to use our original work.

When you and we make a contract, you can ask to buy more rights, like full copyright ownership. If we agree:

The contract will expressly say so,
You will pay extra, and
You will own the rights as described in the contract.

The U.S. Copyright Office publishes documents about copyrights on their Circulars page (link opens in a new tab). Circular 1 describes the exclusive rights of a copyright owner.

Question 3

01 | How much would I pay for your services?

amandasalisbury · Accepted Answer

Your costs depend on the scope of your project and the choices you make in your contract with us. We have three kinds of cost: communication rates, service rates, and licensing and copyright rates.

For hourly rates, time is digitally tracked, appears on the invoice, and is billed in partial hours (minutes) so you only pay for the time we work.

Communication Rates

Free for your request, our response, and the project check-ins you and we set in our contract together

An agreed-upon per-hour fee for additional communication that exceeds the project check-ins we set in our contract together

Service Rates

Law-related service rates

$60 per hour of research, writing, or both

Business-Related Service Rates

$40 per hour of research, writing, or both

Creative service rates

Research-only projects

$30 per hour for research and preparation of research findings

Writing projects

(with or without research)

$0.10 to $0.30 per word counted in the final draft of the work product

The rate depends on the type of writing you request. Typical rates for some types of writing might be:

$0.10 per word for blog posts and short-form fiction or non-fiction (no more than 40,000 words)
$0.10 to $0.20 per word for long-form fiction or non-fiction (more than 40,000 words), adjustable in the contract you and we make together
$0.20 to $0.30 per word for academic non-fiction narratives regardless of length, adjustable in the contract you and we make together

Licensing and Copyright Rates

Remember, only original works are protected by copyright laws. We added some relevant information from copyright.gov to our Ownership and Use FAQs.

Ordinary Use License

No added cost for your license to use our original work for personal use and business planning or compliance purposes

Other Rights

Negotiated rates for additional rights, like full ownership of the work and original characters or worlds

You can plan to negotiate the rights in the contract you and we make before project work starts, or you can request to negotiate for the rights in a new contract with us after the work is done.

Question 4

01 | What am I buying?

amandasalisbury · Accepted Answer

You are buying our services to research, write, or both.

Typically, the contract between you and us will grant you a license to use our original work. The contract will detail the rights we license to you and limitations (if any) on how you can use the licensed work. We work with you to set licensing rights and limitations.

These are some licensing rights and limitations that we typically use in our contracts:

The license might not expire.
You might have to credit us as creators.
You might be restricted from using original characters and other elements protected by law.

The license might not expire.
You might have to credit us as creators.
You might be restricted from using original characters and other elements protected by law.

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