Creative Commons and Creative Permission

I want to make it really easy for you, the people of the internet, our people, to benefit from our work as much as possible. For this reason, I've released the contents of this website, including any music, images, video, etc. under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

This is the image they gave me: Creative Commons License

Here's a quick run-down of what it means:

  • CreativeCommons. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work (without profiting from doing so).
  • Attribution. You must attribute the work to The Situation! providing a link to http://thesituation.com.
  • NonCommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivativeWorks. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

This license specifies that you may not make any derivative works based on the work you find here. However, this is not to say that you may never do so. In fact, we feel very passionately that you should have the right to freely modify and distribute 'derivative works' and we are willing to provide an alternative license to anyone who contacts us wishing to, for any reason, create a 'derivative work'.

The reason we do not use a license which allows for derivative works by default is because that would prevent us from learning of any second generation transformations of the work found here. The fact is, we want dearly to love and experience those works and the creative commons license that allows for modifications, the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, does not necessitate that we be made aware of any derivatives.

This is our promise:

So long as you provide a copy of or access to your derivative work, not only are we willing to link directly to its location from our site, but we will also offer free hosting of said work if you don't have a place to display and share it from. If you have not received confirmation that you have succeeded at contacting us, understand that publishing a derivative work is in full violation of our trust and the law.

Thank you, in all parts, for fully agreeing to respect the lax requirements of courtesy outlined here. If you'd like to do something that might not be covered by this license (like distribute our work commercially), contact us!