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HumboldtLycanthrope wrote: @Shawn, there are other books besides Cleric's. The one that has Leo in it, for instance. It maybe Slime Beasts own site but since there is a link to it from here that means he is making profit from it. Ditto with that guy who wrote Leo. There is a direct link from the story to Amazon so that you can buy the book and no doubt he uses this site to make advertise and make money.

@Banning, can you claify the copyright information for me. Can anyone take our stories and legally share them on Facebook with the copyrights we use? "By use of this site alone" was very important. You can not just expect to put a story here and wait for money. Those who go solo, make books, et cetera are making no money from this site alone, and seeing as the most popular pages don't have around 1,000 comments, I'd say that it isn't even good advertising. It's decent to start you off, but will never compare to actually advertising your work.

Also, I can point to at least 50 pages built simply on doing so.

Simply search the keywords "horror stories, creepy, creepypasta, scary, stories, nightmares", and similar words.

They are meant to credit you, but if I took, for instance, Number of the Beast, made a remake of it, made no money, and didn't claim you supported me in making it, I'd be in the clear as far as the law goes.

Asshole move? Yes. The law doesn't agree with personal views, though.

If I took your story and put it on facebook, simply linking you as the author would be enough for Creative Commons to be in the clear.