User:Moogsi/Help:Licensing own work

Introduction Copyright What is copyright? Free licenses Sharing your work allows other to remix and build on it Choosing a license Picking the right license for your work More information More information about copyright and licenses

Sharing things you've made on Commons is very simple. [Say something else encouraging here!]

Whole thing needs prettification, I am thinking LARGE ICONS style.

Your own photos, illustrations and movies and other works are automatically protected by copyright when you create them. Copyright and its related rights allow you the exclusive right to:

• Copy your work
• Be credited for your work
• Freely distribute your work

among others. No-one else has these rights over your work. For more information see [more about copyright somewhere].

The advantages of a free license

Copyright can restrict the free flow of works which are intended to be shared, and [some other pinko rubbish about free culture goes here]

When you upload your work to Commons you are donating it to the world by using a free content license which allow everyone to use, modify, and redistribute your work for any purpose. Although you retain the copyright to your work, all works submitted to Commons must have at least these freedoms. [Some blah about Free Cultural Works?] To learn more about the charitable mission of the Wikimedia Foundation visit [the foundation website].

Which license should I use?

There is a wide choice of licenses, but we kind of recommend you use CREATIVES COMMON WOO FANCY GRAPHICS GO HERE

More fancy than this...

[Push CC, link to slinky CC propaganda] [mention or give equal billing to GFDL to stop me being murdered by zealots, explain there are others, that you can multilicense, link to others and more in-depth information]

Frequently asked questions

Hey I saw NC and ND licenses on the Creative Commons website. Why don't you allow those? Unless I add an NC license, people can make money from my work, right?

• Link to a future help page which contains the more pertinent points from e.g. [1]

Can I see a full list of licenses I can use for my own work?

• Yes, look somewhere like User:Moogsi/Help:Licensing own work/Tag list

What is the difference between a dugong and a manatee?

• Yes probably

References

See also

• Commons:Village Pump/Copyright: for copyright and licensing-related questions
• Commons:Licensing: Commons licensing policy