Do I need to retitle my book in CC-BY-SA 4.0 to release derivatives that are non-CC?
<p>I have a novel released in CC-BY-SA 4.0, and I would like to revise it and republish the revised version under full copyright.</p>
<p>The text on my website where the novel is currently posted reads: The text of [book title], including all chapters within it, is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA) license.</p>
<p>Because of this wording, does that then make ALL my future iterations of this title automatically fall under CC BY-SA? Or does that apply only to this version? Would I need to retitle my book in order to release the revised version under full copyright?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>First of all, anything released under CC-By-SA <strong>is</strong> under &quot;full copyright&quot;. I suppose that you mean you want to release the revised version under some less permissive license, possibly one with no permission to others to copy the work.</p>
<p>You do not need to retitle your work (although you can if you choose to). To avoid confusion, you might want to change the web site to say something  like:</p>
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<p>The text of the original version of [book title], dated [date] including all chapters within it, is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA) license. The revised version, dated [date 2] is not available under that license, but is instead released under [terms].</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You might want to include a copyright notice on the revised version along with a notice that this is a revised version, and is not available under the CC license used on the original version.</p>
<p>You might prefer to take down the original version, and remove the release notion from the web site. While people who obtained the original under the CC-BY-SA license continue to have the right to redistribute it under that license (and to make derivative works, if the ND clause was not included) <strong>You</strong> are not required to continue to distribute the released work, or to advertise your previous release.  You could replace the release notice with a statement that you had released the original, but are now distributing the revised version by a different method.</p>
<p>If you plan to publish the revised version with a traditional publisher, they will probably insist on you taking down any previous versions, and you will probably want to do this ASAP.</p>

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