When you write and publish on the internet the copyright is usually the site owners. In the case of the Deep Stop, we respect you and your writing enough to say that the copyright is yours.

There are unscrupulous people out there who may copy your content and use it on their own sites. The way you protect this is via a copyright notice, and then by addressing the hosts of the website committing the offence, but if you have no copyright notice then you have no chance of getting justice. Here’s what I propose..
I will shortly be inserting a copyright notice in the themes on the Deep Stop. This will be a creative commons licence which looks like this;

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License.

and will appear in the footer or the sidebar of every theme, protecting your content.

In short, when clicked it sends the reader to a page which states the following;

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

	Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
	Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
	Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.

• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.
• Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

I think this is adequate, but some people may wish to have a more stringent copyright notice. If you are one of these then please contact me.