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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8361100" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm sorry, I don't know how to parse &quot;You use it you renumerate for it&quot;.&nbsp; Can you please clarify?&nbsp; How is it exploitative for WotC to provide a license for others to use WotC's IP and profit from it?&nbsp;&nbsp; How could WotC manipulate that to gain any profit?&nbsp; Remember, the WotC setting contest still followed the SRD.&nbsp; It allowed contestants to enter the contest using WotC IP.&nbsp; The contestants never owned the settings they were pitching outright the second they started using WotC IP.So, no, it's completely different.It doesn't matter what D&amp;D Beyond is doing with the rights. The simple fact that they HAVE the rights devalues the work.&nbsp; After all, I cannot then sell the rights to my work to some VTT to use for their frames because that VTT would never buy without having exclusive rights.&nbsp; And, I'm pretty sure that the art used by every virtual tabletop that isn't licensed from someone else (like Monster Manual art for example) is owned 100% by the VTT company.I'd agree if you actually responded to the issues.&nbsp; But, you keep dodging them and trying to make them about other stuff.&nbsp; &quot;WEll, whatabout WOtC!?!?!?! They run contests TOOOO!! See, the big bad mob isn't shutting down their contests!! Why are they picking on poor D&amp;DB?&quot;Well, because D&amp;D Beyond has created a contest that is exploitative and follows pretty much the same exploitative practices that the industry has been endorsing for decades.&nbsp; The difference is now, people aren't quite as cavalier about screwing over people and actually believe in things like fair pay for work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8361100, member: 22779"] I'm sorry, I don't know how to parse "You use it you renumerate for it". Can you please clarify? How is it exploitative for WotC to provide a license for others to use WotC's IP and profit from it? How could WotC manipulate that to gain any profit? Remember, the WotC setting contest still followed the SRD. It allowed contestants to enter the contest using WotC IP. The contestants never owned the settings they were pitching outright the second they started using WotC IP. So, no, it's completely different. It doesn't matter what D&D Beyond is doing with the rights. The simple fact that they HAVE the rights devalues the work. After all, I cannot then sell the rights to my work to some VTT to use for their frames because that VTT would never buy without having exclusive rights. And, I'm pretty sure that the art used by every virtual tabletop that isn't licensed from someone else (like Monster Manual art for example) is owned 100% by the VTT company. I'd agree if you actually responded to the issues. But, you keep dodging them and trying to make them about other stuff. "WEll, whatabout WOtC!?!?!?! They run contests TOOOO!! See, the big bad mob isn't shutting down their contests!! Why are they picking on poor D&DB?" Well, because D&D Beyond has created a contest that is exploitative and follows pretty much the same exploitative practices that the industry has been endorsing for decades. The difference is now, people aren't quite as cavalier about screwing over people and actually believe in things like fair pay for work. [/QUOTE]

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