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| Can anyone explain to me Creative Commons... |
by FNORDer |
2007-04-06 09:51:25 |
...In english?
I'm thinking about licensing my writing under Creative Commons, but I'm still in the process of deciding. It's cosmologically appropriate considering it's one of themes of the work, but I don't want to have the documentation say one thing and me meaning another.
The license I've been reading over is this one
Basically, I want people to be able to access, download and redistribute my writing for free should they so choose. With the proviso that it is unaltered, unedited and references myself as the author and my site as its origin. I am the only person allowed to profit from my work as a primary source. i.e. should someone place a sample of my work in a small paid publication that's fine, but charging for complete copies of my work on their own is a big nono. I'm not entirely sure how sampling licenses work with respect to literary works, some potential applications intrigue me, others less so (although some of that is the control-freak in me). I'd also just like to be have a little note asking politely that if people want to host copies of my work or use it in collective works that they let me know. I'm not going to overturn the CC on a case by case basis or anything, I'd just love to hear from them what inspiration they've found in it (like say someone turns chapter 1 into a comic for their art class, or puts it in their campus paper etc.).
Basically I want it to be explicit that Fair use hasn't been kneecapped, and if someone likes it they can keep a copy on their HD, or print it out and bind it, or pass it along to friends with no worries.
I've known people who've decided against using a cc license because of certain conditions of the licensing (though this was 3 years ago) and I'd just like to make ABSOLUTELY sure I'm getting into something I want to get into.</rant>
Oh! PS. do I really need to specify a region? |
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Since you've probaby read Section 2, | by toysbfun | 2007-04-06 10:06:40 |
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yeah I'm not against fanfic | by FNORDer | 2007-04-06 10:13:46 |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "revert to | by toysbfun | 2007-04-06 10:25:04 |
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Yeah Free Culture is the book. | by FNORDer | 2007-04-06 10:37:06 |
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