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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9271631" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, you lose rights to your work as soon as you post it on EnWorld.&nbsp; I don't know what the EnWorld terms and conditions state, but I have been on forums that explicitly had in their terms that whatever you posted to their forum became the intellectual property of the site owner.&nbsp; In those cases, if you published based on your posts at those forums then the site owners could sue you.&nbsp; You'll also find that having posted at EnWorld tends to break the terms publishers will demand of right of first publishing meaning they'll refuse to publish a work that is heavily based on posts you've made here.&nbsp; I don't think that's true of EnWorld, or at least it wasn't, because they once asked me for permission to publish a post I'd made here, but to be honest I haven't read the terms and conditions in a long time here.That leads into something I've been wondering for a long time which is the reason the overall quality of the posts have EnWorld have gone down over the last 20 years is that I think the vast majority of posters are holding back any good stuff now because self-publishing has become such a big thing in the table top RPG community.&nbsp; We're no longer the &quot;potlatch&quot; community we used to be, because it's too easy to commercialize your own content.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know that in general I now only post things that I couldn't claim copy right over in the first place because they are derivative of other IP, and that I've noticed not only are fewer people posting content generally but there aren't even people asking for content assistance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9271631, member: 4937"] No, you lose rights to your work as soon as you post it on EnWorld. I don't know what the EnWorld terms and conditions state, but I have been on forums that explicitly had in their terms that whatever you posted to their forum became the intellectual property of the site owner. In those cases, if you published based on your posts at those forums then the site owners could sue you. You'll also find that having posted at EnWorld tends to break the terms publishers will demand of right of first publishing meaning they'll refuse to publish a work that is heavily based on posts you've made here. I don't think that's true of EnWorld, or at least it wasn't, because they once asked me for permission to publish a post I'd made here, but to be honest I haven't read the terms and conditions in a long time here. That leads into something I've been wondering for a long time which is the reason the overall quality of the posts have EnWorld have gone down over the last 20 years is that I think the vast majority of posters are holding back any good stuff now because self-publishing has become such a big thing in the table top RPG community. We're no longer the "potlatch" community we used to be, because it's too easy to commercialize your own content. I know that in general I now only post things that I couldn't claim copy right over in the first place because they are derivative of other IP, and that I've noticed not only are fewer people posting content generally but there aren't even people asking for content assistance. [/QUOTE]

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