{"id":402656,"date":"2019-04-08T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-permanently-release-all-copyrights-to-all-my-writing\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:11:49","slug":"i-permanently-release-all-copyrights-to-all-my-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-permanently-release-all-copyrights-to-all-my-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"I Permanently Release All Copyrights to All My Writing."},"content":{"rendered":"
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When journalist Elizabeth Vos\u00a0told me on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0today that one of my posts should be on bumper stickers, coffee mugs and t-shirts, my first thought was, \u201cMan, I don\u2019t have time for that.\u201d And my second thought was, \u201cBut hey, maybe some other people might.\u201d<\/p>\n

On that note, I hereby release all copyrights to all of my writing to the people of the world. This includes tweets, blogs, poems, digital or print, past writing or future writing, to be used however anyone wants to use them. Put them on bumper stickers, coffee mugs or t-shirts, turn them into pamphlets or books, to distribute for free or for your own profit, or anything in between. You are free to credit me or not, or to claim authorship yourself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll attach an appropriate legal notification to this effect in all future posts, but for now this blog post (and feel free\u00a0to archive it<\/a>) serves as my official notification that nobody who uses anything I\u2019ve ever written or ever will write for any purpose will ever face any legal action from myself or anyone associated with me for doing so. My work belongs to everyone, and if you see anything you want to put out there, I encourage you to use it. No need to contact me before or after doing so.
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My reasons for doing this are entirely selfish; I\u2019m trying to seed healthy ideas into an unhealthy world, but my own reach and time is limited. I would like to live in a healthy world, so if you help circulate healthy ideas you\u2019re helping me. I\u2019m supported by entirely voluntary donations from readers, so I don\u2019t depend on copyrights to pay my bills. I am choosing to exercise the freedom that this gives me by…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When journalist Elizabeth Vos\u00a0told me on Twitter\u00a0today that one of my posts should be on bumper stickers, coffee mugs and t-shirts, my first thought was, \u201cMan, I don\u2019t have time for that.\u201d And my second thought was, \u201cBut hey, maybe some other people might.\u201d On that note, I hereby release all copyrights to all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}