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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 7691538" data-attributes="member: 6680772">There seems to be a discrepancy between the DMGuild FAQ and the Content Agreement.  The FAQ says:The content agreement, though, says:Now of course, the former talks about "own" and the latter talks about "exclusive licence".  But the upshot is that while the FAQ says WotC will purchase your IP outright if they use it, by the terms of the agreement, WotC can use freely use the IP without purchasing it.I suspect the issue is one of "policy" versus "legally CYA".  The all-encompassing exclusive license is necessary to create the open community access while covering WotC and OBS from litigation.  But as far as the people currently at WotC are concerned, they have no intention of using IP from DMGuild without purchasing it outright.As I suggested before, I think it's an equitable quid pro quo that in exchange for the wide scope of access DMGuild provides to WotC's IP, you give other participants (including WotC) equal access to the IP you've adding to it.  But it is something of a legal paradox.  WotC doesn't own the IP, but since your Work must be exclusively sold on DMGuild, and you grant irrevocable license to WotC, OBS, and everyone else on DMGuild to use the IP, one can say that you don't really "own" it, either.One distinction, which perhaps needs to be clearer, is that while DMGuild gets exclusive license to your Work, and gets license to use your IP, it doesn't look like they get exclusive license to the IP.  That is, if you write an adventure that has a unique character, you cannot sell that adventure elsewhere once you put it on DMGuild, but you can use that unique character in other, non-DMGuild work.  Conceivably, Matt Mercer could put his Gunslinger and Blood Knight classes in new, distinct non-DMGuild work, such as Matt Mercer's Big Book of New Character Classes for The World's Most Popular Role-Playing Game.  He just can't sell the PDFs he submitted to DMGuild at other sites.</blockquote>

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