I’m going to be writing an article for Gotpoetry.com regarding the whole perpetual discussion of whether or not it’s a good idea to post your work online for fear of plagiarism, loss of copyright and money, inability to publish, etc.

My thinking on this issue has evolved to the point of deciding that I no longer care about these issues in regard to my own work — I’m content to let the work be out there and seen by more people than worrying about whether or not I’m losing out on potential royalties or whether someone’s taking credit for my work. I’ve pretty much decided not to copyright my work in the future at all.

But I’m interested in your points of view. Thoughts?

ETA:

geminipoet pointed me to the Creative Commons site for more info on something that works very nicely for the type of thing I’m talking about. I was familiar with Creative Commons, but not with the details of how it worked.

Anyone else out there using this?

http://creativecommons.org/