License

Please take a moment to educate yourself on the exceedingly few steps needed to avoid violating the terms of my license and infringing on my copyrights. I do not mind if you reuse my content–if I did, it would not be licensed this way.

Terms of text license

The textual content of this Web site is available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. You are free to copy or perform the content and to create derivative works, but under the following conditions:

1. You must attribute the work as described in the terms below.
2. You must allow others to create derivatives based on your modification of my work.

How to attribute text

If you intend to use my content on the Internet, you must provide a hyperlink back to the original document’s URL or to this Web site’s base address: http://cinnamonpirate.com/. You must credit me for the original work with the text, “By Derrick Sobodash.”

Print media must credit my original work with a byline such as “By Derrick Sobodash.” If pieces of my work are used in conjunction with another writer’s, a footnote such as “Derrick Sobodash contributed to this story” is accepted as attribution. It would be nice if you can provide me with a PDF of the page on which my work appears, but it is not required.

Any broadcast or performance of my work must include a statement at the beginning that it was produced by Derrick Sobodash. If you broadcast a derivative work, you should state at the beginning that my work was used as source material.

Terms of photo license

Photographs are available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. You may share my photographs for non-commercial purposes provided you credit me as the photographer. Commercial use is forbidden.

How to attribute photo

Non-commercial Web use must include a hyperlink to this Web site’s base address, http://cinnamonpirate.com/, or to my Flickr Photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsobodash/. You must also provide a photo credit with the text “By Derrick Sobodash.”

Purchase photos for commercial use

Commercial Web sites and commercial print media must contact me to license the use my photographs. I will generally sell print and display rights at the media group’s standard pay rate for freelance photographers. As part of the contract, I will supply the original RAW or JPEG photograph free of my watermark. PayPal and bank transfer are acceptable methods of payment: I do not take checks because most cannot be cashed in China.