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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5015899" data-attributes="member: 3820">Having been on the other side of some of these things, I can only say... it's complicated.The "good sportsmanship" approach to this rule is fairly simple: Wizards would like to, for instance, promote the community by doing up pages that show sample bits of content and then link back to the user's created pages. Without a license, they can't do that. So it can be used in a sort of "everybody benefits" way, and I'd be surprised if most of the Wizards team had any other kind of aspiration.Then there's the "covering our asses" angle. This is the sad requirement that lawyers place on companies who create. If you don't get out there and defend your IP, and you let it be used without penalty, you essentially lose the right to call it yours. Lawyers hate that, and for good reason: you're giving more away than you might eventually be able to afford. It's ugly and irritating, but that's IP law, and if you make a living off your IP, it's a concern.I don't know if Wizards could do much less without going against legal advice. I do think that the terms of it you granting them a license to use your stuff instead of outright ownership is a strong sign of good sportsmanship, though.</blockquote>