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<blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8933436" data-attributes="member: 6914290">This seems to be a bit of an argument based on semantics. There is the idea of a draft as incomplete document from the perspective of the person who drafted it vs. the idea of a draft as an incomplete document generally. In my experience, large public corporations have controls in place to make sure that contracts are reviewed by various stakeholders before those contracts are made available to outside parties for execution. If it was an executable contract that folks received, it is reasonable to expect that a bunch of people internal to WoTC reviewed and signed off on the version that went out. Sure, at the end of the day, if that contract version doesn't get executed, then that version is a &quot;draft&quot;, but let's not conflate things. If publishers received an executable contract, it either represented the motivations and expectations of the WoTC/Hasbro stakeholders who reviewed it, or there was a pretty significant breakdown in their internal controls (which is something regulators take pretty seriously for public companies in the Unites States). This &quot;oh we didn't really mean any of those things in that executable document&quot; version of the word 'draft' just isn't something you should expect to see for a large, publicly-traded companies. It strains credulity because it should.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gammadoodler, post: 8933436, member: 6914290"] This seems to be a bit of an argument based on semantics. There is the idea of a draft as incomplete document [I][B]from the perspective of the person who drafted it [/B][/I]vs. the idea of a draft as an incomplete document generally. In my experience, large public corporations have controls in place to make sure that contracts are reviewed by various stakeholders before those contracts are made available to outside parties for execution. If it was an executable contract that folks received, it is reasonable to expect that a bunch of people internal to WoTC reviewed and signed off on the version that went out. Sure, at the end of the day, if that contract version doesn't get executed, then that version is a "draft", but let's not conflate things. If publishers received an executable contract, it either represented the motivations and expectations of the WoTC/Hasbro stakeholders who reviewed it, or there was a pretty significant breakdown in their internal controls (which is something regulators take pretty seriously for public companies in the Unites States). This "oh we didn't really mean any of those things in that executable document" version of the word 'draft' just isn't something you should expect to see for a large, publicly-traded companies. It strains credulity because it should. [/QUOTE]

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