Everything on this website--the stories, the songs, the essays, everything--is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This is a fancy way of saying that you can use it, but you have to do the following.:
1) Attribute it to me (as in: don't take it, slap your name on it, and say it's yours).
2) You can't make money off my stuff unless you speak to me first. Same goes for using my stuff in advertising.
3) If you want to turn my stories into some other creative endeavor or remix my songs, go to it.
4) If you want to put my essays on your website, go to it. If you want to play my songs and upload your versions to YouTube, go to it.
5) If you want to take my work and play around with it so as to turn it into something else (such as sampling my work), go to it, but again: attribute my contribution, and if you plan to make money off my stuff or use it in advertising, we need to talk.
6) It's totally okay if you mix or modify my work and then release a work of your own with the restriction that no one can modify the work you've produced.
7) If you use the music included with my stories the same rules apply to my friend Henning Ohlenbusch. He wrote that music. Give him credit, and if you plan on using his stuff to make money or to tell something, you need to speak to him. And check out his site, by the way; it'll do your body good.
In short: all I ask is that you remind everyone that I wrote this stuff, and that if you plan on making some money that we talk about it first. Just email me.
One last thing: none of this applies to taking my work, being inspired by it, and then using it as a stepping stone to launch your own creative endeavors. If you read my stuff and it inspires you to write tiny stories, do it (please); if you listen to my music and say "I can write a better song," do it (please); if you take my ideas and make them your own (please), that will do my spirit good, I tells ya.
In that spirit, I say: steal from me all you want (please), however you want; all artists, myself included, hope that someone will steal from them in this way.
My work will still be here, and I'll right chuffed knowing that I inspired someone to find their own voice.
That is all. Thank you.
This is a fancy way of saying that you can use it, but you have to do the following.:
1) Attribute it to me (as in: don't take it, slap your name on it, and say it's yours).
2) You can't make money off my stuff unless you speak to me first. Same goes for using my stuff in advertising.
3) If you want to turn my stories into some other creative endeavor or remix my songs, go to it.
4) If you want to put my essays on your website, go to it. If you want to play my songs and upload your versions to YouTube, go to it.
5) If you want to take my work and play around with it so as to turn it into something else (such as sampling my work), go to it, but again: attribute my contribution, and if you plan to make money off my stuff or use it in advertising, we need to talk.
6) It's totally okay if you mix or modify my work and then release a work of your own with the restriction that no one can modify the work you've produced.
7) If you use the music included with my stories the same rules apply to my friend Henning Ohlenbusch. He wrote that music. Give him credit, and if you plan on using his stuff to make money or to tell something, you need to speak to him. And check out his site, by the way; it'll do your body good.
In short: all I ask is that you remind everyone that I wrote this stuff, and that if you plan on making some money that we talk about it first. Just email me.
One last thing: none of this applies to taking my work, being inspired by it, and then using it as a stepping stone to launch your own creative endeavors. If you read my stuff and it inspires you to write tiny stories, do it (please); if you listen to my music and say "I can write a better song," do it (please); if you take my ideas and make them your own (please), that will do my spirit good, I tells ya.
In that spirit, I say: steal from me all you want (please), however you want; all artists, myself included, hope that someone will steal from them in this way.
My work will still be here, and I'll right chuffed knowing that I inspired someone to find their own voice.
That is all. Thank you.
