How to protect your work. License it!

[Robert Denham]

It is a little important to copy right your creative works under a creative commons attribution when posting your artwork, blogs, music on the internet or anything else that you have created.

With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify here. For those new to Creative Commons licensing, we've prepared a list of things to think about. If you want to offer your work with no conditions or you want to certify a work as public domain, choose one of our public domain tools

EG:

All Art Work, paintings, photos and designs by Robert J Denham are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at rjdenham.webs.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://rjdenham.webs.com/apps/tos/.

How to do it:

Simply follow this URL:

http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Allow commercial uses of your work?

( I choose no)

Allow modifications of your work?

( I choose no)

Jurisdiction of your licence

• You can pick what country, or international protection you would like.
• Then choose your additional information, like the title of the work "All Art Work, paintings, photos and designs"
• The attribute work name is you, like in my example is "Robert J Denham"
• The URL of you site or blog you wish to post the protective code on,
• mine is http://www/rjdenham.webs.com
• The source URL is where the art peice, or blog is located at, such as all my art is at:
• http://rjdenham.webs.com/apps/photos/
• Webs.com allows me to add a terms of use page to my site, which becomes the "more permissions" page.
• http://rjdenham.webs.com/apps/tos/

MY EG: Additional Information

The additional fields are optional, but will be embedded in the HTML generated for your license. This allows users of your work to determine how to attribute it or where to go for more information about the work.

Tell us the format of your work:

Title of work

Attribute work to name

Attribute work to URL

Source work URL

More permissions URL

THEN CHOOSE "SELECT LICENCE" It will bring you to this page:

Here is the licence you've chosen

You have selected the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. See how the licence will look to your site's visitors.

Have your own website?

Copy the text below to your Web site to let your visitors know what licence applies to your works.

Select the contents of the box above and copy it. Or, have it emailed to yourself.

MAKE SURE YOU COPY AND PASTE YOUR PERSONALIZED CODE INTO YOUR MAIN PAGE, ART PAGE, OR BLOG PAGE - IN THE HTML BODY

IF YOU GO TO MY PAGE YOU WILL SEE MY LICENCE AND THE LINKS WILL LINK TO MY TERMS OF USE PAGE, AS WELL AS THE COMMON LICENCE PAGE. SO - LICENCE YOUR WORK IF YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE USING IT OR COPYING IT, OR EDITING IT, OR DAMAGING YOUR WORK IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM. THESE DOCUMENTS CAN BE PRINTED OUT AND TAKEN TO COURT IF THE NEED ARISED.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://rjdenham.webs.com/apps/tos/ (such as a waiver of some or all of these conditions)

• AT MY SITE UNDER THE TERMS OF USE CONTRACT YOU WILL FIND:
• Site Terms and Conditions of Use (20 conditions)
• Terms and Conditions of Sale (8 conditions)
• Blog and Message Board Terms of Use (10 conditions)
• Webs Terms of Service: All visitors and members of sites hosted on Webs.com also are subject to the Webs.com Terms of Service which can be found here: http://members.webs.com/pages/terms/