At present none of the statements in this section are legally binding. As of this writing (10 Oct 2023), I have not needed to do any legal finagling with respect to any of my artwork. (Thank God.) Nonetheless.
I hope to publish a couple of my forthcoming works in due time. So of course I am putting the cart before the horse and thinking about how I would license it rather than actually knuckling down and working on it. I have never claimed to be a good project manager.
I create for fun. I don't do it for money, or fame, or beautiful women. There is a God-given joy inherent in the act of creation, of work, and I do it for its own sake. (I also create so I can get all these stupid ideas to stop clogging my brainspace, but that's neither here nor there.)
I don't wish to be reimbursed for any of my works. I could go into a whole tirade about the nature of ideas and the freedom thereof, but I won't. Suffice to say that I think the "information wants to be free" people are right. I want there to be as few barriers as possible between my ideas and any theoretical audience.
I will always, always strive to keep my works freely and easily accessible.
meowloudly15 started off as a fanwork creator. As such, I have Thoughts And Opinions about copyright law. I agree with the OTW that, under the current copyright system, transformative works should be legally protected by nature of their being, well, transformative. Every piece of art has a right to exist.
Fanworks are a fantastic way to learn how to make art. Not to say that fanworks are like training wheels; they are valid and wonderful artworks in of themselves. Again, ideas are meant to be shared. Stories are meant to be iterated upon, expanded, morphed. There's a reason why humanity invented the mythos. Canon (in a non-Biblical sense) is what you make of it.
So of course I want people to make derivations of my own art! I don't want to turn my metaphorical shrubberies into bonsai shapes; I want them to grow to their fullest potential. And that means any hypothetical audience gets a blanket fanwork permit.
Will some of these works make me uncomfortable? Of course. Will some of them feel like a slap to the face? Definitely. Will some of them make me want to factory reset my brain? Yup. Do these works have any less of a right to exist? Not a chance! So no, I would never slap on a No Derivatives Creative Commons license.
Ideas don't have an owner (everything of us belongs to God), but they do have an initiator. Sometimes more than one. If I could, I would replace copyright as it is with some system to ensure creator attribution.
I don't make any of my art for money, nor do I ever intend to. I don't want art to ever be a chore for me. (That said, I do need accountability lest I not get anything done, ever.) It feels wrong to me that somebody could profit off of distributing my freely-provided work. I'm definitely putting on a Non-Commercialization term.
I've been going back and forth on the concept of ShareAlike. For starters, fanworks tend not to have legal stuff applied to them (not like I'd go after you in court for not slapping a CC license on your fic). On the other hand, it feels wrong to me that somebody could profit off of my freely-provided work, be it as-is or modified. Then again, some of you guys have to put food on the table. A lot of fan-creators have Ko-Fis or Patreons, and I wouldn't want to require that you shut them down for my sake. I'm leaning against using ShareAlike.
At the moment, cuz legal jiggery-pokery isn't on the radar for me, I'm not putting a CC license on my work. CC licenses are irrevocable once established, and I don't want to change my mind later and go "oh noes!" (not that I think I would, but you never know!).
This rant got a lot longer than I anticipated. (This happens a lot with me.) All of this to say - I am explicitly NOT licensing my work here - I will probably establish my work (excepting memes and programming, see below) as under a CC-BY-NC standard in the future. But not now.
Two final notes. Memes are pure, undiluted ideas. Internet memes are far beyond the feasible scope of copyright. Like, did you know somebody copyrighted the iconic Troll Face? That's a really, really hard thing to enforce. So I'm going to treat my memes as belonging to the public domain. Really, the point of memes is to be public domain.
Creative Commons licenses explicitly do NOT cover free-use software and hardware. So any of my code would probably be under something like the GNU license or whatever it's called. Again, I am NOT establishing a license now. All this is mostly me throwing sticky hands at the wall in the vein of Alex Hirsch during the lockdown (iykyk).
TL;DR: You can absolutely share or make derivations of my work, but I'd prefer you credit me and that you don't make money off of it. None of this is legally binding, though.