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<blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 4016713" data-attributes="member: 19718">my bad, you are right, but the phrase&quot;The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction.&quot;is not that completely away from &quot;you IP is ours, too&quot;. i just misread it and omitted the &quot;,too.&quot;i am not a lawyer, so i might be getting this wrong, but what it says to me is that, if you had such a clause on EnWorld, you could collect all the posts made by WotC design team member and sell today a book called &quot;inside D&amp;D 4e&quot;, or something similar. maybe it could be argued that, say, mike mearls doesn't own the copyright of the term &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot;, but i'm sure that this same division between copyright owners and design teams exists for many other game publishers.i also think that (granted the inclusion of this clause on the EnWorld Terms of Use) it would be perfectly legal for you to come out with a PHB book that collects all the rule hints we have read so far, and sell it months before the PHB4e see the light of the day.i might be wrong, but that's what it says to me.it's not as bad as &quot;you can't publish your product, because it's mine&quot;, but it's not even that completely far away from it, given that it comes from the biggest RPG publisher out there...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spell, post: 4016713, member: 19718"] my bad, you are right, but the phrase "The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction." is not that [I]completely[/I] away from "you IP is ours, too". i just misread it and omitted the ",too." i am not a lawyer, so i might be getting this wrong, but what it says to me is that, if you had such a clause on EnWorld, you could collect all the posts made by WotC design team member and sell today a book called "inside D&D 4e", or something similar. maybe it could be argued that, say, mike mearls doesn't own the copyright of the term "Dungeons & Dragons", but i'm sure that this same division between copyright owners and design teams exists for many other game publishers. i also think that (granted the inclusion of this clause on the EnWorld Terms of Use) it would be perfectly legal for you to come out with a PHB book that collects all the rule hints we have read so far, and sell it months before the PHB4e see the light of the day. i might be wrong, but that's what it says to me. it's not as bad as "you can't publish your product, because it's mine", but it's not even that completely far away from it, given that it comes from the biggest RPG publisher out there... [/QUOTE]

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