| Other people have hit the pros, but I'll reiterate a con about public content: - If your content is good and is about something that hasn't been written about in public before, expect to be plagiarized. I've been surprised at the people and publications who have no problem copy and pasting some of my content and passing it off as their own "research". Sometimes authors will realize their mistake, apologize, give a proper citation or use their own content. I don't think people like that are out to plagiarize, I think it can be easy to be swamped with work/academics/literal research and confuse what you've read with your own "research" without giving it much thought. However, it looks like there are actual businesses based on republishing articles other people have written, that will take others' content and copy and paste it into new related articles without citations. I've contacted two and heard nothing back from them, even tried to reach out to the authors of the articles that were published and nothing. All I wanted was a citation. They're counting on original authors not knowing the plagiarized content exists, not knowing their rights and not filing DMCA takedown requests or having lawyer send them C&D notices. So yeah, go into this knowing that you won't get paid and people will be paid to plagiarize what you've written. |