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My written posts and articles are licensed under the CC-BY 4.0. My fictional stories, art and their respective characters, usually referred to as the Caseyverse or Casey Universe, have their copyright waived into the public under CC0 1.0 Universal license. That being said, credit would be much appreciated.

Author’s Note

When I became a digital artist in my teens, I already allowed for broad permissive use of my characters. It wasn’t just those in my inner circle but anybody. Although I was aware of CC-BY, it wasn’t explicitly stated because DeviantART didn’t really support it. And that has allowed early fan art of my characters, specifically Zack Casey, to benefit from other people’s interpretations to get adopted and merged back into my works because I loved it so much. What these people made and remixed effectively became canon. Win-win.

Of course, I can’t make everything canon no matter how much I love what you make. But that’s why we have the Expanded Universe or Fanon. Whatever you want to call it. I dunno. Kinda hits different when you’ve waived all copyright.

As I’ve grown older, I realized that copyright is purely monetarily thing that guarantees royalties in exchange for protected distribution rights. This has been extended from 20 years to life plus 70 and has since cast a wide umbrella on the very contents regardless of copyright status over the course of the 20th century. But that protection is only as good as those who choose to enforce it and I believe that it shouldn’t limit someone else’s ability to use elements from said published work in their own.

Some of the greatest films of all time are adoptions from the public domain and we’re okay with that. More recent talented indie artists, such as Piti Yindee, have also benefited from a similar copyright waiver long before I’ve come to my own independent decision. So there is a case to be made.

Not like I can enforce the internet, anyway.