Legal Concerns

Several things.  I'm leaving school this semester.  I'll go into that later (as in, not in this blog.)  However, with this free time (though getting a job will remove much of that "free time,") I plan to actually make a go of writing.  Yes, I said it (well typed it) out loud.  Err...on the internet.  Ok, well whatever, admitting it is what I'm doing, which makes it all that much more "final" in my mind.

So I grabbed up a big old box of my writings from my parent's house, and am planning to actually type them up, edit them, and submit them to magazines for publication.  A ballsy move if I do say so myself.  But in doing so, I realized I need better criteria for what I put up onto this here website.  Some stories have little to no relevance to the whole world of Caerith, so people can read them on my website and I don't mind.  But, as my father pointed out, if people can get some stories here for nothing, then later if I tried to sell them, I might have some troubles.  So anything that I think is of a particular quality, I'm not likely to post here.  Unless it gets rejected 900 trillion times (as opposed to the 1.1 trillion times a story normally gets rejected,) then I'll publish it myself here on the website and everyone can see why it got rejected so much.

Anyway, because I need to think about what goes up here more, I'm not likely to put up anything "story wise" for a while, and even took down a story because it's actually complete and pretty darn good.  Anyway, I've got things to be doing, but felt it important to address the possible stagnation of what appears on this site.  Sure, as I type up any poems or whatever those will still be here (I don't expect to ever make any money on poems, so I'm not as worried about people potentially not wanting to pay for them later on.)  And things like The Legend of Kagham will still show up (again, as I don't expect to ever try to publish that or sell it for money) but most Caerith related material will be on hold for now.

All that being said, I still retain full rights to anything I post.  No one can take it or publish it or sell it or anything other than me or people I give direct and deliberate permission to.  I am not giving permission to anyone by what I have written above.  Just because I don't expect to sell anything doesn't mean its free and doesn't mean I'm giving up possession of the material or ideas in the material.  Just because I'm being generous and want people to read things (really the reason I write stuff is for people to read it some day) doesn't mean anyone else gains any rights to anything I put onto the website.  I hate to even have to say things like this or think this way, but legal rights are a mess and I want to keep possible misunderstandings (AKA people trying to steal things from me and "being sorry" if I sue him or her or them someday) to a minimum.  Yeah, this paragraph barely touches anything, but it's worth saying, so there.

The legal terms here spelled out no longer apply, except as licensed in the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License Other terms listed in this blog are now only kept as a blog.  All material on this website is covered by Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License and not under any licenses.