Publish101 Copyright & Licensing page completed

We've completed the copyright and licensing page of Publish101 and invite you to review those rights and usage restrictions to your articles to verify that you agree to them.

In all cases we have made them protective of authors copyright and specifically restricted publishers to full attribution links, copyright notices and FORBIDDING sale or use in Spam of your articles. These restrictions give you legal right to protect your work and require notice to you by publishers upon use.

The following is now posted at the Publish101 site at:

<http://publish101.com/Creative-Commons/>

Publish101 Free-Content was organized under licensing and usage rights at "Creative Commons" <http://creativecommons.org/> in which authors specify usage restrictions requiring attribution in the form of live hyperlinks from the author's resource box, forbid the sale of those articles and don't allow any changes to the text or extensive quoting beyond recognized fair use.

Web site owners have long recognized the value of relevant textual content to their web sites and may use the content offered by represented Publish101 writers on their own web site or in ezines if they agree to the following:

1. NEVER distribute those articles in Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE or Spam) 2. NEVER sell those articles individually or as a part of any commercial ebook or paid compilation 3. NEVER change or edit the articles beyond grammar and spelling corrections 4. ALWAYS notify author of web URL of published articles or forward copy of ezine uses 5. ALWAYS retain author copyright and resource box information in full

Writers who contribute their work here, do so under the <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/> "Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works" licensing model of Creative Commons. The full Legal Code of the license can be found at this link.

<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/legalcode>

This notice serves as a Publish101 site-wide notice of the required licensing and usage model to all publishers.

Publishers must forward copies of those newsletters, ebooks or ezines containing provided articles directly to authors and NOT to Publish101. Authors retain and reserve all rights to their articles. Those writers represented here REQUIRE attribution in the form of correct and fully functional live hyperlinks from the articles back to their own website.

Authors who contribute to Publish101 do so under the above mentioned license with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - retaining all rights not specifically granted under this agreement and may grant any additional rights to individual publishers as they see fit. Publishers must adhere to these guidelines and may reference the full legal license at Creative Commons. <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/legalcode>

Publish101 has distributed free content since 1999 and today continues offering distribution of writing by experts on the web to website owners and ezine publishers. Writers offer their expertise to a much broader audience of publishers through this content aggregation and distribution model.

Free Content list owner Mike Valentine first wrote on Creative Commons in April 2003

<http://experts.publish101.com/articles/creative/l icense/commons/site/code/Mike- Banks-Valentine/106245/>

Here is an article by contributing writer Robin Nobles on the benefits and value of Creative Commons and a special Yahoo search functionality.

<http://copyright.publish101.com/articles/commons/ creative/search/content/license/ Robin-Nobles/111894/>

<http://search.yahoo.com/cc/> Yahoo has made available a Creative Commons licensed works database and indexes all articles included under this model in a special <http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22creative+comm ons%22&y=Search+CC&ei=UTF -8&fl=0&x=wrt&cc=1> Yahoo Creative Commons search. This special listing gains authors wider recognition and exposure and can result in substantial additional visbility for participating authors.