In response to a comment here, I just rewrote my copyright policy to clarify the recent changes. Namely: “Inventing Situations grants permission to the original authors for non-profit re-use of their captions.” I’m working sans lawyer here so I’m not going to try and create all sorts of exceptions for what can and can’t be done with captions or otherwise waive my ownership. As a rule, unless I’m talking technical and legal jargon, “authors” will mean the cappers here.

If anybody wants to explicitly opt out (or into) having their captions used, contact me.

For those worried, I’ll re-iterate that I’m working without a lawyer and that the change was meant to help me make the book happen. I’ll leave you to do the math on what sort of re-use by the authors and otheris is safe. (Publishing a book of captions is, of course, not). I will say that if the book happens, wherever possible I will still make my best effort to get explicit permission for publication of caps that were made after the policy change. Though unlike ones made before the change, if I can’t contact the author, I’d probably still go ahead and use it.

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