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<blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 4016829" data-attributes="member: 19718">and it's exactly this that i don't like, regardles of what they might or might not gain, or whether or not it's likely to happen. i don't see why i have to ask to &quot;steal&quot; their ideas and they don't with mine. <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=":)" />these links have two effects:1. disprove my perception that creative people have no problem with sharing their ideas.2. reinforce my perception that, if you don't want to run the unlikely risk of being sued by freaks thinking that you have stolen their idea, you might just as well forbid people from creating derivative works from your IP.now, WotC is caught in the middle. on one hand, they don't want to run the risk. on the other, they want people to create derivative works on their products and to post their ideas on their forums.in my opinion, this could be achieved by inserting more equal clauses in the ToU. for example, they could clearly say that the company will not be responsible for any similarity between their products (past, presents and future ones) and any post in their forums. or something more legally sound and fair sounding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spell, post: 4016829, member: 19718"] and it's exactly this that i don't like, regardles of what they might or might not gain, or whether or not it's likely to happen. i don't see why i have to ask to "steal" their ideas and they don't with mine. :) these links have two effects: 1. disprove my perception that creative people have no problem with sharing their ideas. 2. reinforce my perception that, if you don't want to run the unlikely risk of being sued by freaks thinking that you have stolen their idea, you might just as well forbid people from creating derivative works from your IP. now, WotC is caught in the middle. on one hand, they don't want to run the risk. on the other, they want people to create derivative works on their products and to post their ideas on their forums. in my opinion, this could be achieved by inserting more equal clauses in the ToU. for example, they could clearly say that the company will not be responsible for any similarity between their products (past, presents and future ones) and any post in their forums. or something more legally sound and fair sounding. [/QUOTE]

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