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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 3686324" data-attributes="member: 10913">FIFY <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />If you present a significant amount of text worded like WotC's text but posted before WotC published theirs, a court will tend to find that WotC copied your work. You don't have to establish the exact way WotC saw your work, the mere fact that it's similar is evidence enough that it did. The exception is when the content is a &quot;trivial&quot; derivation (e.g. correcting the spelling of a section of some public domain text) or can't be reasonably cast in a different way (e.g. following the standardized expressions and style of SRD feats to express a certain game mechanic).If you can't say &quot;you saw it on gleemax!&quot; to protect your work, you can't protect work published only on gleemax. You're still just as capable of protecting work published elsewhere, regardless of whether it was posted on gleemax or not. You'll have to prove that Wizards saw your work outside of gleemax to the same extent you have to show it now, sans gleemax. You'd be able to defend your work to the exact same level you can now. My suggestion for the TOS doesn't give you extra power to sue WotC, but doesn't weaken your power to sue WotC either (assuming you post a copy of your material outside of gleemax).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 3686324, member: 10913"] FIFY :D If you present a significant amount of text worded like WotC's text but posted before WotC published theirs, a court will tend to find that WotC copied your work. You don't have to establish the exact way WotC saw your work, the mere fact that it's similar is evidence enough that it did. The exception is when the content is a "trivial" derivation (e.g. correcting the spelling of a section of some public domain text) or can't be reasonably cast in a different way (e.g. following the standardized expressions and style of SRD feats to express a certain game mechanic). If you can't say "you saw it on gleemax!" to protect your work, you can't protect work published only on gleemax. You're still just as capable of protecting work published elsewhere, regardless of whether it was posted on gleemax or not. You'll have to prove that Wizards saw your work outside of gleemax to the same extent you have to show it now, sans gleemax. You'd be able to defend your work to the exact same level you can now. My suggestion for the TOS doesn't give you extra power to sue WotC, but doesn't weaken your power to sue WotC either (assuming you post a copy of your material outside of gleemax). [/QUOTE]

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