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Image set of my Creative Commons quick-start guide for convenience. (I’ll be honest: I limited the presentation to ten slides and provided the image set download specifically for Tumblr.)

Tumblr’s Community Guidelines say that people should reblog things to preserve credit. But what if you don’t mind others reposting it (to Tumblr or elsewhere), as long as you get credit? A CC license lets you grant permission for others to do that, legally.

There’s another side to this that I haven’t stressed enough. Not only to these licenses allow you to give actual permission for others to share your work, they also let them know of any restrictions you might want, especially giving credit. I think that some people who repost others’ work illegitimately have misconceptions about copyright, so they might pay closer attention if there’s something that says “permission is granted as long as credit is given [and possibly other conditions].”