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<blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8168182" data-attributes="member: 6563">The only thing I could find that looks like that is the bit under &quot;&quot;Submissions&quot;:[EXCERPT]Unicorn welcomes your comments, feedback and input regarding Unicorn products through this Site. However, Unicorn does not accept or consider any material for use in any of its products (including, but not limited to, demos, sketches, drawings, notes, stories, and game or character ideas), that has not been specifically requested by Unicorn. Accordingly, Unicorn asks you not to send us any such materials. If you ignore this request, any such materials, comments, suggestions or other information submitted by you to Unicorn will become the property of Unicorn, with Unicorn exclusively owning all known and hereafter existing rights to such materials, and you acknowledge and agree not to contest Unicorn's rights to use and disclose such materials in any manner and for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.[/EXCERPT]So, this isn't one of those &quot;we own what you post&quot; provisos, in the usual sense. This is more of a &quot;don't send us stuff that we didn't ask for—if you do it anyways, we get to keep it&quot;. It doesn't apply to the games, characters, and assets that that you use in your campaigns—just to stuff you submit to the company that they didn't ask for. I believe that this is to protect themselve should they release an asset (feferred to as &quot;Materials&quot; in the ToA) and some rando tries to sue them, claiming that their new asset is copied from something the fan submitted without request just because it's similar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azzy, post: 8168182, member: 6563"] The only thing I could find that looks like that is the bit under ""Submissions":[COLOR=rgb(85, 57, 130)][I][/I][/COLOR] [EXCERPT]Unicorn welcomes your comments, feedback and input regarding Unicorn products through this Site. However, [B]Unicorn does not accept or consider any material for use[/B] in any of its products (including, but not limited to, demos, sketches, drawings, notes, stories, and game or character ideas), [B]that has not been specifically requested[/B] by Unicorn. Accordingly, [B]Unicorn asks you not to send us any such materials.[/B] [B][COLOR=rgb(85, 57, 130)]If you ignore this request, any such materials, comments, suggestions or other information submitted by you to Unicorn will become the property of Unicorn[/COLOR][/B], with Unicorn exclusively owning all known and hereafter existing rights to such materials, and you acknowledge and agree not to contest Unicorn's rights to use and disclose such materials in any manner and for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.[/EXCERPT] So, this isn't one of those "we own what you post" provisos, in the usual sense. This is more of a "don't send us stuff that we didn't ask for—if you do it anyways, we get to keep it". It doesn't apply to the games, characters, and assets that that you use in your campaigns—just to stuff you submit to the company that they didn't ask for. I believe that this is to protect themselve should they release an asset (feferred to as "Materials" in the ToA) and some rando tries to sue them, claiming that their new asset is copied from something the fan submitted [I]without request[/I] just because it's similar. [/QUOTE]

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