Again, I'll cry out to the moderators who seem to be on vacation this weekend. CLOSE THIS THREAD ALREADY. The two sides are not going to come to an agreement, and this thread was started to undermine the respect of a publisher. It's a PR thing that isn't good for either side or the community, and in the end all that will come of it is hurt feelings on both sides.
Now, having said that, I am a freelancer. I could list my past projects, but I'm not going to unless someone really wants me to do so. Now, as a freelancer, if I had been contracted by a publisher to do a project, and then we had a falling out, whether the issues that started the contention originated with me or not, I would fully expect that publisher to go on with the project with or without me... even if the project was my idea originally... even if I had been designing for thirty years and had a cult following of hero worshippers with chips on their shoulders... and especially if the title of the book was property of no one except for someone who has been dead for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
And as for WotC trying to claim the City of Brass as IP - aint going to happen unless they can also try to say that they own all of the Arabian Nights because they did a setting called Al-Qadim. It is patently ridiculous.
Now please, lets just agree to disagree on this, and have the moderators close this threat before Nightfall and rpace give each other virtual bloody noses.