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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5712152" data-attributes="member: 54877">On the content rights and risks there of, wouldn't something like this work: Let people enter new content, and always have it flagged as fan-submitted. (Agree that a separate application a good idea here.) Set up DDI so people need to opt to see this stuff. You go to a separate section to include fan-submitted stuff in your DDI material (preferably, with a DM campaign option to make this standard across a given campaign.) If you want to customize material for your own campaign, you do it the same way, and you can make it public or not.&nbsp;Basically, all DDI is doing at this point is saving you typing it in yourself, when someone else has made an option public that you like.&nbsp;Then, because the quality will range all over the board, WotC checks out things that are good (probably that are getting flagged as good by users). If there is no problem with it (legal, standards, etc.), they flag the option as something they are interested in making &quot;official&quot;. If the author agrees, the author gives up rights to the material. WotC flags it as official and it now shows up for everyone in the standard lists. WotC offers whatever rewards make sense to get the volume they want--credits on subscription, actual micropayments, recognition, etc. If the author rejects the offer, no big deal--leave it as fan submitted only.&nbsp;IANAL nor experienced in any way in content management.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5712152, member: 54877"] On the content rights and risks there of, wouldn't something like this work: Let people enter new content, and always have it flagged as fan-submitted. (Agree that a separate application a good idea here.) Set up DDI so people need to opt to see this stuff. You go to a separate section to include fan-submitted stuff in your DDI material (preferably, with a DM campaign option to make this standard across a given campaign.) If you want to customize material for your own campaign, you do it the same way, and you can make it public or not. Basically, all DDI is doing at this point is saving you typing it in yourself, when someone else has made an option public that you like. Then, because the quality will range all over the board, WotC checks out things that are good (probably that are getting flagged as good by users). If there is no problem with it (legal, standards, etc.), they flag the option as something they are interested in making "official". If the author agrees, the author gives up rights to the material. WotC flags it as official and it now shows up for everyone in the standard lists. WotC offers whatever rewards make sense to get the volume they want--credits on subscription, actual micropayments, recognition, etc. If the author rejects the offer, no big deal--leave it as fan submitted only. IANAL nor experienced in any way in content management. [/QUOTE]

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