Credits
The Yellow Light uses content under license or the public domain. Several images and music are licensed through the Creative Commons Attribution or the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses.
Sae Ong Jee Ma LLC (a New York limited liability company) holds copyright on all other content of The Yellow Light. You can request permission for more general use.
Crediting media to other authors does not mean that they have endorsed the viewpoints of The Yellow Light.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons licenses are a special form of copyright license. The author lets other people use the material as long as they give attribution and provide the text of the relevant license. This is also abbreviated as CC BY and knowns as Creative Commons Attribution. Other abbreviations are CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA, and CC BY-NC-ND for the additional conditions of sharing alike, non-commerical usage, and a ban on derivatives. The Creative Commons website has the various licenses.
The NC clause is the hardest to deal with. It prohibits commercial use, but that would include nonprofit usage if any money is involved. This means you cannot distribute the material at cost—just charging for the cost of the paper and ink that something is printed on. You also cannot provide the NC material at an event that is exclusive and costs money to enter. It cannot be a “perk” for any paid memberships. The list goes on. Sae Ong Jee Ma LLC decided against NC.
Derivatives must be permitted in many situations. The most obvious case for limiting the use or sale of derivatives is in the visual arts or music. However, for text, the decision gets arbitrary. Are these excerpts from one chapter with the whole of the chapter from another book okay to combine with other material in an appendix of a new book? When noting changes, as the CC licenses require, it may be sufficient to note changes which could unfairly imply the original author endorses the larger argument or sponsors the changes.
As always, fair use applies. For limited purposes of review, satire, or commentary (not straight consumption), excerpts are allowed. Citations of the work are allowed, appreciated, and—for academics, especially—even necessary.
If you want to explicitly dedicate something to the public domain before the normal copyright term expires, you can use CC0.
Traffic Light Logo
Illustrated by Kyle Keswick of Keswick Design Co. in Plattsburgh, New York, in consultation with Jonathan J. Chiarella, who outlined the basic design, with edits for size, color, and contrast by Jonathan J. Chiarella
Starry Banner
By Jonathan J. Chiarella, from a public domain image from the US government taken at Joshua Tree in California
Podcast Music
The podcast intro music is from the 2018 release “May the Chords Be with You” from Computer Music All-Stars. It is licensed Creative Commons BY 4.0 and is available on the Free Music Archive.
The podcast outro music is from a 2022 performance of samul-nori music. It is licensed Creative Commons BY 2.0 KR and is available at Gongyu Madang with the code of LSMBG0704.