I have known for a few years now that copyright does not actually protect individual creators. However, I had kept the copyright notices up both here and on the site for my webcomic because I still wanted to restrict what could be done with my art, and also as some false indicator of "professionalism" to myself.

With the news about the Internet Archive losing it's appeal to lend ebooks, I rethought my personal approach to how I want to release my work. No one can have effective ownership over one idea. Copyright exists as a tool of corporations to punish artists in the name of profit. While I personally do not like AI, I believe that people should be able to make art however they want, including usage of my own in whatever way they might. It is not theft if someone wasn't going to pay me to begin with. I did not lose anything and was not adequately harmed by it.

After some research, I am making my work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, and not public domain. While I cannot stop anyone from sharing my work uncredited, I do want to encourage crediting, and the release of open, shareable work (hence the ShareAlike). Otherwise, do as you please.

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I looked to multiple other anti-copyright artists and collectives to make this decision, specifically Unprintable and Kim Diaz Holm. I highly recommend checking them out!