LICENSES

Discovering that someone has stolen your original content is painful and infuriating. You write based on knowledge you either gained through employment or personal interest or spent time researching and gleaning from a variety of sources. Then someone comes along and puts your work on their site with their name in the byline. They may take the time to change or rearrange words, but it's clearly your work... There are six kinds of creative copyright licenses. They control how much of your content can be used, whether or not someone else using your content has to attribute it to you, and whether or not it can be used for commercial purposes. If you are just launching a website, you may want to allow some use of your content with some restrictions, because your work appearing on other sites can draw people to your site and boost your business. Do some research on the different types of creative copyright licenses and choose the one that fits your current situation the best.