Creative commons work?

[Snow_Whyt]

Hey everyone! I am new to the bulletin board but not new to the site. I was wondering if anyone provides stories to use with a CC license? I only want to record myself reading them and they may end up on my youtube channel. I would never want to use anyone's work without permission but I am having trouble finding CC erotic stories to use. Then I was like....duh..my favorite site. lol So I wanted to know if there are stories on here that can be used and if not would anyone be willing to let me use some of their stories? I would definitely credit the author and any added info needed to use it. If not that, does anyone have any ideas of where to find CC erotic literature? I hope I haven't offended anyone by me asking these questions. I just figured this might be another good place for insight. Thanks guys!

 

[NotWise]

Stories published by Literotica remain the author's possession, and the author grants permission for Literotica to publish the story. That system does not prevent stories published on Lit from being used for other purposes or published elsewhere.

I'm not familiar with the Creative Commons license. If it places restrictions on the publication or use of the story, then their license may mean that a story would have to be removed from Lit before it can be used or published there.

EDIT: I just skimmed some information from Creative Commons. Can you get a CC license on derivative material that isn't covered by a CC license?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hey everyone! I am new to the bulletin board but not new to the site. I was wondering if anyone provides stories to use with a CC license? I only want to record myself reading them and they may end up on my youtube channel. I would never want to use anyone's work without permission but I am having trouble finding CC erotic stories to use. Then I was like....duh..my favorite site. lol So I wanted to know if there are stories on here that can be used and if not would anyone be willing to let me use some of their stories? I would definitely credit the author and any added info needed to use it. If not that, does anyone have any ideas of where to find CC erotic literature? I hope I haven't offended anyone by me asking these questions. I just figured this might be another good place for insight. Thanks guys!

Try searching the site for text "creative commons", like so:
https://www.google.com/search?q="creative+commons"+site:www.literotica.com

That finds plenty of stories licensed under various CC versions.

 

[Bramblethorn]

EDIT: I just skimmed some information from Creative Commons. Can you get a CC license on derivative material that isn't covered by a CC license?

Depends on the CC license; there are several versions available.

When licensing your material under CC, you can choose whether to include a "share-alike" condition. If you do, then anybody who creates a derivative work has to make that derivative available under the same license as the original. It's the sort of thing you might use for a collaborative community, where people encourage others to build on their work, but don't want them locking it up and not giving back.

If you use one of the CC versions that doesn't have a share-alike requirement, then they can restrict their derivative works however they like, but obviously they don't have ownership over material that was already in the original. I don't think many writers would be keen to share their stories this way, but it has applications in other areas. For example, the Australian government releases economic data under a CC Attribution license - this means that newspapers can report it, and still claim copyright over the articles where they report it, but they have to acknowledge the source.

You can also choose whether you want to restrict commercial use.

 

[NotWise]

Depends on the CC license; there are several versions available.

When licensing your material under CC, you can choose whether to include a "share-alike" condition. If you do, then anybody who creates a derivative work has to make that derivative available under the same license as the original. It's the sort of thing you might use for a collaborative community, where people encourage others to build on their work, but don't want them locking it up and not giving back.

If you use one of the CC versions that doesn't have a share-alike requirement, then they can restrict their derivative works however they like, but obviously they don't have ownership over material that was already in the original. I don't think many writers would be keen to share their stories this way, but it has applications in other areas. For example, the Australian government releases economic data under a CC Attribution license - this means that newspapers can report it, and still claim copyright over the articles where they report it, but they have to acknowledge the source.

You can also choose whether you want to restrict commercial use.

This much I understood.

I think the OP wants to release a recording of a Lit story under a CC license. If the Lit story itself isn't covered by a CC license, then that might give the reader license control of the work. I don't know. I'm speculating.

If the reader contacts authors of the stories they want to read, then the author can probably put the original story under a CC license before it's recorded, and that wouldn't even prevent the story from staying on Lit.

There's a low threshold to becoming a CC licensor, but you do need to pick the right license.

I don't know why it isn't normal practice for authors here to become Creative Commons licensors. I've never even thought about it. Maybe it's an extra step, but the documentation might help when your story shows up on Amazon.

It seems like an easy thing to do. On the other hand, I have no idea how CC prevents fraud.

 

[NotWise]

Hey everyone! I am new to the bulletin board but not new to the site. I was wondering if anyone provides stories to use with a CC license? I only want to record myself reading them and they may end up on my youtube channel. I would never want to use anyone's work without permission but I am having trouble finding CC erotic stories to use. Then I was like....duh..my favorite site. lol So I wanted to know if there are stories on here that can be used and if not would anyone be willing to let me use some of their stories? I would definitely credit the author and any added info needed to use it. If not that, does anyone have any ideas of where to find CC erotic literature? I hope I haven't offended anyone by me asking these questions. I just figured this might be another good place for insight. Thanks guys!

What genre and length of story are you looking for?

 

[Bramblethorn]

This much I understood.

I think the OP wants to release a recording of a Lit story under a CC license. If the Lit story itself isn't covered by a CC license, then that might give the reader license control of the work. I don't know. I'm speculating.

I read it the other way around - OP looking for stories that have been posted under a CC license which would permit OP to record a reading.

I don't know why it isn't normal practice for authors here to become Creative Commons licensors. I've never even thought about it. Maybe it's an extra step, but the documentation might help when your story shows up on Amazon.

Not that I know of. CC doesn't grant any extra protections to a story and it doesn't create any evidence that you own the story, any more than sticking "copyright me" on the text would do.

Rather, it's a way of waiving some of the rights that you would otherwise have as the copyright holder* - "it's okay to copy this story and you don't need to ask my permission, as long as you comply by these conditions".

*usual caveats about non-registered copyrights being effectively unenforceable

 

[Snow_Whyt]

Thank you so much!

 

[Snow_Whyt]

This much I understood.

I think the OP wants to release a recording of a Lit story under a CC license. If the Lit story itself isn't covered by a CC license, then that might give the reader license control of the work. I don't know. I'm speculating.

If the reader contacts authors of the stories they want to read, then the author can probably put the original story under a CC license before it's recorded, and that wouldn't even prevent the story from staying on Lit.

There's a low threshold to becoming a CC licensor, but you do need to pick the right license.

I don't know why it isn't normal practice for authors here to become Creative Commons licensors. I've never even thought about it. Maybe it's an extra step, but the documentation might help when your story shows up on Amazon.

It seems like an easy thing to do. On the other hand, I have no idea how CC prevents fraud.

Ok so from my understanding from what I have researched so far, is that a CC license is the Creative commons license which means that there is no copyright on the material because it is in the public domain and anyone can use it. but there are like I think 4 different types of the creative commons licenses and each provision certain things. The first one is just a regular creative commons license where the author or creator (owner) of the material has basically volunteered the work for anyone who wants to use it and it is basically royalty free and they can never come back to the user and say, 'hey you stole intellectual property from me, I'm suing you.". Another one is saying pretty much the same as the first but the only stipulation is that if you use it you must credit them as the owner/author when you use it. So, say you post a video and their work is in there, then maybe at the end of the video or even in the description, you would need to attribute the author for their contribution to your video. You would have to let the audience know what was used and where it came from. A lot of times I have seen URLs that were required to be listed as a part of the credits. The URLs lead back to a collection of their work or business. So I guess that way they benefit from the use of the materials. Now if the author has copywritten their work then no one can use it without getting permission from the author. There is even more to it than that. There is a great video on this that I posted on youtube. I learned a lot from watching it and since I am a newbie at all this I wanted to share it for other newbies but maybe I can share it here too. I write too but I just don't share it so I never knew about anything but copyright and copyright infringement. This Creative commons is fairly new, like just a few years old so I am sure these types of discussions will happen again. If the authors here don't mind their work being used than it's not biggie but for those who do mind and may never heard of the Creative Commons license then I am glad my earlier post brought it up because maybe this can help someone. I hope it is ok to the link the video because the video is great at explaining it and it cleared up questions I had from just reading up on it. https://youtu.be/ikgA4U7udpo

 

[Snow_Whyt]

Try searching the site for text "creative commons", like so:
https://www.google.com/search?q="creative+commons"+site:www.literotica.com

That finds plenty of stories licensed under various CC versions.

Thank you so much!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Ok so from my understanding from what I have researched so far, is that a CC license is the Creative commons license which means that there is no copyright on the material because it is in the public domain and anyone can use it.

"Public domain" would mean that nobody owns it at all. Under most CC licenses, the creator still owns copyright, but they have given permission for people to use it in certain ways free of charge. It's sort of like saying "this is my land, but you're free to cut across it" (except that with CC, you can't revoke that license once you've given it).

There are six major versions of CC (plus "CC0", which releases the material into the public domain altogether):
https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

By my understanding, the "ND" versions would prevent you from sharing a reading (since they only allow for straight copies, no alteration) and the "NC" versions would not allow you to monetise the video.

 

[QuillPig]

I'm doubtful that many authors here are aware of creative commons licenses and/or explicitly grant such licenses in their text.

Your better bet might simply be to find some stories you like, message the authors, and ask their permission. I'd think a decent percentage of authors would be happy to say yes, as long as you're not trying to make a profit from their work. After all, they're posting here for free.

Obviously, you'll probably have better luck if the author has some recently-published stories on the site. Someone who last published in 2004 or 2008 may never see your message.

 

[AlinaX]

I'm sure I left a comment on one of my stories saying it was creative commons, but the comment's not there now.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm doubtful that many authors here are aware of creative commons licenses and/or explicitly grant such licenses in their text.

Looks like there are about seventy stories on Lit with some variety of CC licensing. Not a large percentage of the total, but might be a few in there that fit OP's needs.

Otherwise, as you say, a lot of authors would probably give permission for non-profit reading if asked.