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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 4023151" data-attributes="member: 10913">My own suggestion is for for the license to state that Gleemax is a &quot;copyright free zone&quot;, effectively - that whatever you post there cannot be used as a source-copy in a copyright infringement suit. So if you post your house rules there and Wizards then prints a book with them, you can't sue Wizards based on the fact that they were posted to their site. You can sue Wizards based on the fact that they're on YOUR site, just like you can now (without the Gleemax agreement, and unrelated to it). One can also sue you for posting something that isn't yours into Gleemax; I'd add a public policy allowing posters to use Wizards' IP on Gleemax as long as they aren't quoting it or rewriting extensive parts of it.The point isn't that my suggestion or meleeguy's suggestion is perfect; the point is that there are other alternatives to provide protection to WotC, that its lawyers CAN draw up an agreement that respects the rights of others. That they don't is precisely because they don't respect them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 4023151, member: 10913"] My own suggestion is for for the license to state that Gleemax is a "copyright free zone", effectively - that whatever you post there cannot be used as a source-copy in a copyright infringement suit. So if you post your house rules there and Wizards then prints a book with them, you can't sue Wizards based on the fact that they were posted to their site. You can sue Wizards based on the fact that they're on YOUR site, just like you can now (without the Gleemax agreement, and unrelated to it). One can also sue you for posting something that isn't yours into Gleemax; I'd add a public policy allowing posters to use Wizards' IP on Gleemax as long as they aren't quoting it or rewriting extensive parts of it. The point isn't that my suggestion or meleeguy's suggestion is perfect; the point is that there are other alternatives to provide protection to WotC, that its lawyers CAN draw up an agreement that respects the rights of others. That they don't is precisely because they don't respect them. [/QUOTE]

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