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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8362056" data-attributes="member: 22779">I think this whole thing about the image search brings up a very important point.The defense for all this is that it protects the contest runner from lawsuits.  Which is true up to a point.  It does protect the contest runner from lawsuits from the contestants in the contest.  But, it does nothing to protect the contest runner from lawsuits from everyone else.  After all, there's no guarantee that the contest winner is not copying (completely inadvertently, absolutely no bad faith going on) someone else's work.  Particularly for something as small as an icon frame.  There are literally thousands of these frames out there right now.  Heck, I've used the token generator in this thread:  <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/battle-maps-and-vtt-token-maker-generator.680384/" target="_blank">Free - Battle maps and VTT token maker/generator</a> to make tokens for my game.  Right there, there are about 30 borders at that site.  There are literally hundreds already out in the wild and probably thousands.  So, before a contest winner was announced, you'd think that the contest runner would be obligated to do some sort of image search, if only to protect themselves from legal issues down the road.  My point is, taking the rights away from the creatives who enter the contest doesn't actually do what people are claiming.  It doesn't protect the company.  It protects the company against those that entered the contest, sure, but, so what?  The company will still have to spend the money on an image search anyway.  There's no getting around that, not if you want to protect yourselves from lawsuits.  So, what is this actually doing?  If it's not actually preventing lawsuits, only the potential from lawsuits from contestants, is that really worth it?</blockquote>

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