&gt; could take my work, attribute it, put it on some SEO&#x27;d site and outrank me<p>Attribution should be made in the way you want it to be made. Your domain name or email or unique random string one could google, could be part of your signature that would be obligatory for others to include if they want to share or build upon your work.<p>&gt; Very few people are going to find the original source, search it<p>If I like something that somebody made I usually look him up to find out if he has other cool stuff. I do it with musicians, I do it with authors, with actors, with directors ... less so with graphic designers because they are way harder to find because information about authorship is almost never carefully retained for images.<p>Same way as with code. If I find cool project I&#x27;m looking for original repo and most prominent forks.