I thought I'd hire Ukessays, but after reading their copyright page I don't think it's a good idea because:

1. They don't allow copyright transfer (when I buy a custom research paper from them I have no rights to it whatsoever, maybe except they allow me to read it and reference it).

2. They write? "The Agency agrees that all Work supplied through its service will not be resold, or distributed, for remuneration or otherwise after its completion. The Agency also undertakes that Work will not be placed on any website or essay bank after it has been completed."

That means if I order an article to post on my blog for my readers to read, I am not allowed to do that. If I'm paying so much money per page, I'm not allowed to do anything!? Too bad, I'm out. I prefer to order from a good freelancer and then I can do whatever I want and I can publish the work under my own name on my own blog.

Thank you for answering my inquiry. It took me two nights to figure out what's going on with this UKessays service. It was mind boggling to me that students would post their work just like that, for free, on their site. Students who order these services don't want to have much to do with them, believe me ;). I visited ukessays.com/essays/ and they write, quote:

Below you will find a collection of over 300,000 essays that have been provided by students in order to help you with your own studies.

All our free essays are supplied by students as learning resources for other students. If you see an essay on our website that belongs to you and you do not want it published anymore, then we can remove it for you.

I thought to myself - dude, I know nobody who would post their own work for free to use by other students. Then I noticed Ukessay is part of a bigger company that owns an anti-plagiarism tool: Viper (scanmyessays.com). I run my own blog so this stuff is interesting to me, I sometimes used copyscape to find out if my content was copied by others. Anyway I went to this scanmyessays site and found this, quote:

When you scan an essay, we'll take your essay and add it to our database so that future scans that you or other people make can be compared to it. Nobody has access to this database and if part of your essay matches another essay, other people cannot see your work - they only see a percentage match. Aside from that, 9 months after your scan, we will automatically add it to our student database and it will be published on one of our study sites to allow other students to use it as an example of how to write a good essay.

scanmyessay.com/viper-use-essay.php

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So here is what UkEssays / ScanMyEssays do:

1. They attract students to check their essays for plagiarism by using their "free tool" on Scanmyessay page. Students being stupid and lazy don't know the tool is useless (student can use turnitin student version for free if they like).

2. They store the checked essay in their database.

3. They publish the essay on Ukessays website as their own content. This is very important for them because they get FREE content (normally they would have to pay freelance writers at least 0.05 per word as I pay) which helps them stay alive in Google and other search engines. Imagine, they have millions of words of FREE content (the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of pounds, or more) and students who wrote the content gets nothing in return.

4. They lie that "nobody has access to this database" - in fact, billions of Internet users do have access to content on their own search page. All of the essays in their database are indexed in Google so how they can claim nobody has access to them?

5. On UkEssays website they lie by omission (they don't reference scanmyessay site in their TOS / Disclaimer).

My advice to students - read the fine print. Don't give away your work for free.

Regarding copyright - you're right, there is no provision in law that prohibits transfer - it's a red herring at best.