How do you want others to see your work? Do you want people just to read it on the Scribblepool site? Are you happy with others putting it up somewhere else so long as they credit you? Or do you want people to have the freedom to adapt your work, so long as it’s non-commercial?

There are lots of ways that you can license your work and retain control over it through Creative Commons, or give up all your rights and just allow the world to do what they want with it. By clicking through to this page on the Creative Commons site you can answer a few simple questions which will then give you a simple piece of HTML that you can put at the beginning or end of your piece. There are simple explanations of all of the licenses here on the Creative Commons site, so have a read of those and think about how you want others to encounter your work!

If you want to there are now additional pieces of information that you can enter so that the license points to the place where you specifically uploaded the material. For example, I’m putting this here under a CC-Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License: this means that anyone can take this text and adapt it freely, so long as they credit me as the original writer, they don’t try to make any commercial gain from it and they license the resulting work under the same license.

So go on! Get out there, get sharing your work with the world!

“Summary of Creative Commons things for Scribblepool site“ by Nathan Ryder (2009) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.