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<blockquote data-quote="Kem" data-source="post: 3679834" data-attributes="member: 18158">Its to protect WotC from Legal Action, not prevent legal action by WotC.Thats the difficulty.(Let us ignore copyright issues for the moment for sake of making an easy example <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Let us say you make Feat X and post it on Gleemax.WotC publishes Feat X or a feat just like it.Normally if you had it on the web, you could say they are stealing your work.&nbsp; They could then prove that they independantly developed it.Now if its on their web site, how do they prove they did not take your idea?&nbsp; Their forums are moderated, and people from WotC post there.&nbsp; They might not have seen your feat (it was tucked into the middle of a normal good post) but how do they prove that?Even if nobody from the R&amp;D team reads the forums, people who work for WotC do, so how do you prove that the idea did travel from one person to another at the same company?Hence they own what you post on their site.&nbsp; To protect themself.Gleemax is an interesting step forward from that.&nbsp; The problem arises where people want credit.&nbsp; But really, how will you prove they used yours?&nbsp; The case is easy for something large, but for something like a feat or something like that good luck.But then, how do you word that instead of what they are planning on having?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kem, post: 3679834, member: 18158"] Its to protect WotC from Legal Action, not prevent legal action by WotC. Thats the difficulty. (Let us ignore copyright issues for the moment for sake of making an easy example :) ) Let us say you make Feat X and post it on Gleemax. WotC publishes Feat X or a feat just like it. Normally if you had it on the web, you could say they are stealing your work. They could then prove that they independantly developed it. Now if its on their web site, how do they prove they did not take your idea? Their forums are moderated, and people from WotC post there. They might not have seen your feat (it was tucked into the middle of a normal good post) but how do they prove that? Even if nobody from the R&D team reads the forums, people who work for WotC do, so how do you prove that the idea did travel from one person to another at the same company? Hence they own what you post on their site. To protect themself. Gleemax is an interesting step forward from that. The problem arises where people want credit. But really, how will you prove they used yours? The case is easy for something large, but for something like a feat or something like that good luck. But then, how do you word that instead of what they are planning on having? [/QUOTE]

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