Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-25941663-20180815160859

Thanks for clearing these up, but let's not get hang up on technicalities (unless you are an actual lawyer who studied copyright law, in which case please let us know).

First, when you create a work you automatically have a copyright on it. You made it, it is yours, that's it. To be clear, copyright is given upon creation not when you post it.

If you don't establish your copyright though simply creating it won't cut it. If someone steals this work of yours and they publish and establish their copyright on this work, you just lost it (unless you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that your work was stolen and that you created it).

Llanunall wrote:

Third, you cannot void copyright or CC-By-SA.

I think you also got too hang on my "void the copyright" term. What I obviously meant was that no matter what license Reddit marks your work as, the story is licensed as CC-BY-SA if you post it here, as per the ToS of this site. I didn't mean that you no longer hold the rights to your stories, that wouldn't make sense.

Also, can you clarify what you mean by this:

Llanunall wrote: Also worth noting, you cannot revoke the CC-By-SA license.

I am not sure this is true. I know of authors who have posted their work here and then needed the work published (under a third-party publisher). These authors subsequently deleted their stories from here because they shared the rights to their story with this publisher.

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All in all, I would really like to keep discussions here as simple (and therefore practical) as possible to help the authors who need assistance in a timely manner. If you are an actual lawyer, I apologize, but otherwise let's not spread information we can't vouch for with absolute certainty. We are contacting the legal team on Wikia Staff to help us out with this, there is no need to get into technicalities here.