Discussion Over Rules

[robkelk]

... Basing our editorial decisions on the laws of any country other than the one we're hosted in seems like folly to me, ...

Alas, the country I'm in disagrees on that. Although that stance also relates to "community standards"; the community in question is an entire nation.

...  Selling the work is more likely to be infringing, but that's also orthogonal to a Creative Commons license.  ...

Unless we go with one of the NC licenses, the way we did with Fenspace.

I'm less worried about copyright than I am about trademark - we aren't copying chunks of text or video and one cannot copyright a single word, but one can trademark an image or a name. We have to be careful that we are not appearing to be in competition with the original works (which is why so many of my scenes and stories are written in a way that doesn't re-provide information that's in the original works).