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HTML was previously allowed, but there were issues with the way pages loaded and displayed. We no longer allow HTML and strip it from the Description field in the Lulu Publishing Wizard.

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You may set one of a variety of Intellectual Property licenses for your work. Before you can assign a license, your project availability status must be set to anything other than "Available only to me" (Private).

Set the license from the fifth step of the Publish wizard, Price & License. Click the >Set License< button. Click on the linked name of any of the default licenses to learn more about it.

Note: Because the license tells the buyer or user how he or she can use your work, your selection becomes fixed at publication. You can change the license after publication by creating a new revision. See How do I revise my published book... for more information.

Available licenses are as follows.

Standard Copyright License

All of your rights under copyright law apply to the work.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0

People are may copy, alter, and distribute your work as long as you are given credit and the license remains attached to the copy.

GNU Free Documentation License

This license is similar in scope, but works under this license may be used for commercial purposes.

Creative Commons Public Domain

Reserves the work for use by the public.

Lulu offers these licenses as defaults because they are the most popular options for licensing non-software content on the Web. To use one of these licenses, click on its radio button.If none of the default options meets your needs, you can choose from a wider selection by clicking the >More Licenses< button located above the list of license options, or you can specify your own license by clicking the >Use My Own License< button.

When you are satisfied with your selection, click the >Review Project< button. (You may reset your project availability status to private at the review window, if you aren't ready to make your work available.)

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Lulu offers a range of Creative Commons licenses and GNU licenses; access these options through the >More Licenses< button. For a full explanation of these licenses, see the following websites.

• Creative Commons Licenses
• GNU Licenses

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In the Price & License step of the publishing wizard, you have the opportunity to develop a customized license. Click the >Use My Own License< button to display a Web form where you specify the name, URL and attributes of the license you wish to use.

The options you choose on this form must match the terms of your license, and are considered part of your license. Be aware that the options selected in your form override the text of your license.

You may also use another Lulu's license. If you enter the URL of a license that another Lulu user has already chosen, the information that has already been entered (title and attributes) replaces the information you submit.

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