This is the default license that, by submitting to LaughterHouse, you agree to. Read it through. If you don’t agree to it, that’s fine! Really! We’re willing to accept submissions through other non-exclusive copyright licenses, including non-copyright licenses, like Creative Commons. When you make your submission, just let us know, and we’ll accommodate you. We’re not looking to screw anyone over, but we need to cover ourselves with a license.Here’s the general gist of the license, but if you’re concerned please read the real thing through for yourself:

YOU RETAIN ALL RIGHTS TO YOUR WORK. You can publish it somewhere else, you can change it, you can even sell it to someone else! (So long as they know that we have rights to it too). By submitting, you agree to let us publish your work on our site. We can also incorporate your contribution into other projects too, and distribute your contributions through a variety of means. A submission is pretty much any interaction that you have with us (forum posts, professor quote submissions, comment posts, emails) that you do not say “this isn’t a submission.” (This is so you don’t have to agree to a license every time you contribute to our site.) This agreement stands until we both agree to terminate it.

Here’s the actual license:

NON-EXCLUSIVE COPYRIGHT LICENSE

The Submitter (The “Copyright Owner”) hereby grants LaughterHouse (”Licensee”) permission to copy, display and distribute copies of their work, or ideas, as described by their submission to LaughterHouse. A submission is constituted as any post to the LaughterHouse publishing system, or any post to the LaughterHouse forum, any email communications that relate to LaughterHouse to any LaughterHouse editor or administrator, any physical mail communications, or post to the comment areas of LaughterHouse that are not explicitly described by the Copyright Owner as not being submissions.

The license extends to incorporate the copyright work, in whole or in part, into derivative works. The license will terminate only with the written agreement of the Copyright Owner and the Licensee. Display rights of the Licensee shall extend to the Licensee’s current web site and any derivative projects, as a web page or any other form of media. The Licensee is also granted distribution rights via the aforementioned web site, email distribution, print distribution, and any other means.

The Copyright Owner retains all rights in the copyright work, including without limitation, the right to copy, distribute, publish, display or modify the copyright work, and to transfer, assign or grant license of any such rights.

The license commences immediately upon submission, with no expiration date. The license will terminate only with the written agreement of the Copyright Owner and the Licensee.

By submitting anything to LaughterHouse without explicitly describing it as a non-submission, or without providing a separate license, the Copyright Owner agrees to this license. By accepting the Copyright Owner’s submission, either by incorporating their work or publishing their submission, the Licensee agrees to this license.