Who owns the intellectual property of my work?

The short answer is that you retain ownership of your work. You are simply giving ETC Press permissions to publish your work.ETC Press publishes all its work under one of two Creative Commons licenses:

• Attribution-NoDerivativeWorks-NonCommercial: This license allows for published works to remain intact, but versions can be created.
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: This license allows for authors to retain editorial control of their creations while also encouraging readers to collaboratively rewrite content.

That said, if an author wants to use a copyrighted image in their text, they are responsible for trying to secure permission (and ETC Press will clearly state (in the front matter of the publication) that all images are *not* in the Creative Commons and that the respective owners’ reserve all rights.