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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4032167" data-attributes="member: 18280">Maybe you and I are reading different licenses, because when I read the Gleemax TOU, I can see that the TOU could very well be used to take ownership of your posts, without any cost to WotC.(1)&nbsp; WotC publishes a sourcebook with your material in it.(2)&nbsp; WotC claims ownership of said material (say, through its copyright statement, or by claiming it as WotC IP.(3)&nbsp; The TOU make it clear that if there is a legal dispute, you must pay all WotC's costs, including any costs of settlement.(4)&nbsp; Therefore, there is no means by which you can render a meaningful judgement against WotC in this case.&nbsp; Or whoever they decide to sell your work to.In any event, you lose any right to control over your work, forever and without the means to ever regain control over it.Allowing this sort of power to anyone is a bad idea.&nbsp; Allowing that person to be able to transfer that sort of power is an even worse idea.&nbsp; Allowing transferable power to an entity that will (over the course of your lifetime) be controlled in all likelihood by many different people, each of whom has the power to transfer that control, is so obviously a bad idea that it is mind-numbing that anyone would champion it as a good idea.&nbsp; (Except, of course, those people who directly benefit from it.)RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4032167, member: 18280"] Maybe you and I are reading different licenses, because when I read the Gleemax TOU, I can see that the TOU could very well be used to take ownership of your posts, without any cost to WotC. (1) WotC publishes a sourcebook with your material in it. (2) WotC claims ownership of said material (say, through its copyright statement, or by claiming it as WotC IP. (3) The TOU make it clear that if there is a legal dispute, you must pay all WotC's costs, including any costs of settlement. (4) Therefore, there is no means by which you can render a meaningful judgement against WotC in this case. Or whoever they decide to sell your work to. In any event, you lose any right to control over your work, forever and without the means to ever regain control over it. Allowing this sort of power to anyone is a bad idea. Allowing that person to be able to [i]transfer[/i] that sort of power is an even worse idea. Allowing transferable power to an entity that will (over the course of your lifetime) be controlled in all likelihood by many different people, each of whom has the power to transfer that control, is so obviously a bad idea that it is mind-numbing that anyone would champion it as a good idea. (Except, of course, those people who directly benefit from it.) RC [/QUOTE]

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