New Village Press is using an innovative form of copyright for our newest publication, Building Commons and Community, called “Creative Commons”. Creative Commons encompasses a spectrum of use rights for intellectual property that range from “no rights reserved” to the unprotected public domain. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any member of the public, but only on certain conditions.

Leading the development and employment of these new models of copyright is the 501c3 non-profit of the same name — Creative Commons.

We selected a combination of license conditions for Karl Linn’s book from a thoughtfully written menu of licensing options. We chose Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (by-nc-nd), which are described in detail on the Creative Commons website.

You can see how we stated it on our book’s copyright page.