New Posts For Thread: Can you copyright your ideas posted in the forum for D&D?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DDApparently Wrecan believes he cancommunity.wizards.com/wrecan/blog/2011/0...Do you think this is viable?Can you come up with a new magic item, new spell and then make it 'copyright' so that nobody else can use it except for the wizards of the sword cThe real thing to keep in mind, that clause in the ToS is mainly (like 99%) to protect WoTC from someone posting and then claiming WoTC stole their idea a few months later, when they come out with something similiar.I might have issues with WoTC, buthttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DD?post_id=507430705#507430705The real thing to keep in mind, that clause in the ToS is mainly (like 99%) to protect WoTC from someone posting and then claiming WoTC stole their idea a few months later, when they come out with something similiar.I might have issues with WoTC, butSat, 01 Oct 2011 12:59:05 -0500Yeah, this is exactly why I stopped bothering to post my junk around, no sense in myself {or others} doing all the hard work and having WotC just step in an yoink it on me, without any kinda compensation otherwise. Hell, I'd be happy with just my namhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DD?post_id=507423585#507423585Yeah, this is exactly why I stopped bothering to post my junk around, no sense in myself {or others} doing all the hard work and having WotC just step in an yoink it on me, without any kinda compensation otherwise. Hell, I'd be happy with just my namSat, 01 Oct 2011 09:30:29 -0500The real thing to keep in mind, that clause in the ToS is mainly (like 99%) to protect WoTC from someone posting and then claiming WoTC stole their idea a few months later, when they come out with something similiar.I might have issues with WoTC, buthttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DD?post_id=507418487#507418487The real thing to keep in mind, that clause in the ToS is mainly (like 99%) to protect WoTC from someone posting and then claiming WoTC stole their idea a few months later, when they come out with something similiar.I might have issues with WoTC, butSat, 01 Oct 2011 06:30:55 -0500Thanks! That's what I'd expected. But hearing someone upthread assert that WotC *shares* the copyright struck me as pretty odd.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DD?post_id=507416225#507416225Thanks! That's what I'd expected. But hearing someone upthread assert that WotC *shares* the copyright struck me as pretty odd.Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:48:44 -0500They have an irrevocable and exclusive license, not a copyright. I don't know if they have standing to sue, but they might, based on a dilution of the value of the license.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28303767/Can_you_copyright_your_ideas_posted_in_the_forum_for_DD?post_id=507372775#507372775They have an irrevocable and exclusive license, not a copyright. I don't know if they have standing to sue, but they might, based on a dilution of the value of the license.Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:14:27 -0500