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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9465317" data-attributes="member: 3285">At a guess, it feels less like &quot;WOTC ignored rights of creators&quot; and more &quot;inherited TSR's mess and was hoping TSR had done their legal homework.&quot; It's telling that Adkinson is mentioned and when the SSFWA speaks to him, he said he'd look into it (as opposed to clearly stating that rights were resolved, or referring to a lawyer). So it really does seem WOTC thought TSR had this settled and found out after the fact they didn't. At a guess, the CD-ROM fell through the cracks in the transition when WOTC bought TSR's properties. What's notable, and I will make this point in the next article, is that of the three groups, once is clearly NOT represented and that's game designers. I worry that means that the contracts folks signed with Dragon were either so comprehensive that it covered worldwide, perpetual rights (I wrote for Dragon Magazine later and I'm pretty sure they own all of what I contributed and have the rights to republish it as they see fit) ... or, what seems more likely, game designers simply weren't organized enough to fight something like this the way the SSFWA or Kenzer did.&nbsp; And that's a big problem when we get into AI rights.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="talien, post: 9465317, member: 3285"] At a guess, it feels less like "WOTC ignored rights of creators" and more "inherited TSR's mess and was hoping TSR had done their legal homework." It's telling that Adkinson is mentioned and when the SSFWA speaks to him, he said he'd look into it (as opposed to clearly stating that rights were resolved, or referring to a lawyer). So it really does seem WOTC thought TSR had this settled and found out after the fact they didn't. At a guess, the CD-ROM fell through the cracks in the transition when WOTC bought TSR's properties. What's notable, and I will make this point in the next article, is that of the three groups, once is clearly NOT represented and that's game designers. I worry that means that the contracts folks signed with Dragon were either so comprehensive that it covered worldwide, perpetual rights (I wrote for Dragon Magazine later and I'm pretty sure they own all of what I contributed and have the rights to republish it as they see fit) ... or, what seems more likely, game designers simply weren't organized enough to fight something like this the way the SSFWA or Kenzer did. And that's a big problem when we get into AI rights. [/QUOTE]

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