Adding a Creative Commons License to a Story

[SavagePeach]

My stories are released under the CC0 license. On other sites, the way I do that is to include the link in the author's notes ie, "this is released under the CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)." However, I see that links aren't allowed at all on Literotica. Does that mean I just need to reproduce the entire CC0 boilerplate as an author's note?

 

[EmilyMiller]

My stories are released under the CC0 license. On other sites, the way I do that is to include the link in the author's notes ie, "this is released under the CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)." However, I see that links aren't allowed at all on Literotica. Does that mean I just need to reproduce the entire CC0 boilerplate as an author's note?

I’d suggest simply saying something like - ‘This story is covered by a Creative Commons license (CC0), please search for the relevant details.’

I don’t know whether any of the above falls foul of Lit’s policies, maybe soemone else with a legal background can comment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My stories are released under the CC0 license. On other sites, the way I do that is to include the link in the author's notes ie, "this is released under the CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)." However, I see that links aren't allowed at all on Literotica. Does that mean I just need to reproduce the entire CC0 boilerplate as an author's note?

I'd put a link in your Author's Profile, and a simple one liner at the foot of each story, as Emily suggests.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

My stories are released under the CC0 license. On other sites, the way I do that is to include the link in the author's notes ie, "this is released under the CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)." However, I see that links aren't allowed at all on Literotica. Does that mean I just need to reproduce the entire CC0 boilerplate as an author's note?

Just don’t make the url an active link.that might work.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My stories are copyrighted by me or my publisher for me.

 

[Britva415]

My stories are released under the CC0 license. On other sites, the way I do that is to include the link in the author's notes ie, "this is released under the CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)." However, I see that links aren't allowed at all on Literotica. Does that mean I just need to reproduce the entire CC0 boilerplate as an author's note?

I think you can just say Public Domain. You definitely don't have to have a working hyperlink, you don't need to use a CC version of PD if you don't want to, you're welcome to include all the CC0 boilerplate if you feel like there's a good reason to, but if all you want to accomplish is releasing the work into the public domain, I don't know if there is one.

 

[SavagePeach]

I think you can just say Public Domain. You definitely don't have to have a working hyperlink, you don't need to use a CC version of PD if you don't want to, you're welcome to include all the CC0 boilerplate if you feel like there's a good reason to, but if all you want to accomplish is releasing the work into the public domain, I don't know if there is one.

Surprisingly, there is no airtight method to release works to the Public Domain worldwide. The CC0 license solves this. But I do like the suggestion to put the link in my bio. Thanks!

My stories are copyrighted by me or my publisher for me.

All works are automatically under copyright in the US. Neither you nor your publisher needs to do anything to "copyright" it. Indeed, releasing it from copyright is the much more difficult process!

 

[old_prof]

All works are automatically under copyright in the US. Neither you nor your publisher needs to do anything to "copyright" it. Indeed, releasing it from copyright is the much more difficult process!

This is actually only partially true. They are in fact copyrighted, but that copyright cannot be defended in court unless the copyright is also registered. This became a big issue with the recent lawsuit over training an LLM on copyrighted texts.

 

[alohadave]

All works are automatically under copyright in the US. Neither you nor your publisher needs to do anything to "copyright" it. Indeed, releasing it from copyright is the much more difficult process!

All creative works in every Berne Convention country (180 countries) are automatically copyrighted.

In the US, registration is required to defend the copyright, other countries do not. The difference between registering properly and not is being able to sue for statutory damages versus only being able to sue for actual damages.