I bought 16 articles from a cheap article service and found something profound. What to do?

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Hi All,

I'm working on a new project and for it I need several articles.

I decided to try out one of those cheap article services. I joined, put a few bucks in escrow and submitted my writing requests.

All articles were completed within 12 hours and I released the payments.

Today I was reading the articles and they ranged from poor to excellent and everything in between.

In one not so good article there was a sentence with 16 words in it that were so profound to me and germane to my project and other same type ventures, that I just sat there reading them over and over.

I can make money with this uniquely stated idea.

Now, I didn't come up with these 16 words, a "professional" writer/employee of a mass article writing service did.

He/she may or may not wake up in the middle of the night and realize how profound those words are. In doing so he/she may use them again.

Hey, I paid for those 16 words so I feel completely justified in claiming them as mine. I might even buy them in a URL just to have a date stamp on them.

Just curious, what would you do to make sure you were the first to say them in public?

It's a sentence, not really a motto or anything such as that. It's simply a short sentence that expresses a common idea in a never before stated way.

George Wright, P.S. Yes I did Google them in quotes "" and I did run them through Copyscape. These words are not "out there" yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author goindeep
    What is the point of what you are trying to do?

    I get what your saying, but there is something your not telling us. You can not expect us to give you good advice unless we know whats on your mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    George,

    If you want to register copyright on your statement:
    U.S. Copyright Office - Registering a Work (FAQ)

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  • Profile picture of the author Gerard Mohamed
    Your request is very vague, but probably the first thing you need to do is to patent and/or secure copyrights. Remember that the article writer could be a member of this forum and on reading this, might just get a wake-up call and beat you to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eduard Stinga
    Unless the writer is a "big player", I'm sure he/she will never realize how important what was said is. Also, you might want to check the policy of the article writing services, to see if you get full rights to the articles, but since it was a cheap services, I'm not sure you'll find such a thing.

    You just made a lot of people very curios about the "profound sentence".
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Eduard Stinga View Post

      You just made a lot of people very curios about the "profound sentence".
      That's for sure.
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    • Profile picture of the author mrdomains
      Even if you manage to protect it in the US, the rest of the world probably doesn't even have a copyright for ideas and concept. I would guess most of Europe does not. Add to that the impossible task of waging a war against idea/conceptual piracy when even the humungous media industry can't protect their own easily identifiable unique productions.

      There are 7,,:rolleyes:,:p people on earth.

      Trying to sweep it under the rug while you consolidate your forces and bring it out in full play at a later time is.. futile. Sooner or later, one, ten or a thousand of them are going to come up with the exact phrase, idea, concept, whatever as you and stake their claim simply by being first. The same writer may be handing over an article with the exact same sentence to someone else...

      While I think that you probably can't protect an idea or a concept on a global scale - you can get protection for a slogan (idea, concept, vague visualization) as an integral part of a corporate identity/brand/name.

      You need a company, establish a brand/identity, and a hefty purse to register it globally, as a trademark I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeanneLynn
    I want to know what the sentence said! But I sure don't blame you if you won't tell us. Maybe your writer is a genius who hasn't been discovered yet?
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