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The five people who subscribe to Peacock are going to be very confused.And it will be on Peacock, and on both the Twitch and Youtube channels of both G4TV and D&D.
The five people who subscribe to Peacock are going to be very confused.And it will be on Peacock, and on both the Twitch and Youtube channels of both G4TV and D&D.
That is unacceptable to me as well.but if the rights to non-winning entries don't revert back to the authors it's nothing but a rip-off: avoid with all haste.
I signed up for the free level of Peacock to watch some NBC thing or other. Ads don't bother me none.The five people who subscribe to Peacock are going to be very confused.
The five people who subscribe to Peacock are going to be very confused.
No, 'cause anything I write wouldn't follow their requested/desired lore. ('course, it wouldn't be written for 5e either, so there's that...)
Good in principle to see they're doing something like this; but if the rights to non-winning entries don't revert back to the authors it's nothing but a rip-off: avoid with all haste.
Why? Ideas are cheap. We (DMs and writers) come up with a dozen a day. You can replace the one you "gave" WotC in a couple hours' work, and the next one will probably be better anyway. And, if nothing else, you wouldn't have even created the thing if not for the contest anyway.That is unacceptable to me as well.
That's my take. The contest got me off my duff to write something I wouldn't have otherwise, and got me thinking about interesting parts of WotC-owned IP. If I'm completely honest, it also got me to read the 'Traps' section of Xanathar's guide, which I somehow hadn't done before.Why? Ideas are cheap. We (DMs and writers) come up with a dozen a day. You can replace the one you "gave" WotC in a couple hours' work, and the next one will probably be better anyway. And, if nothing else, you wouldn't have even created the thing if not for the contest anyway.
At Wizards sole discretion, any material that is not used may be released to the Entrant or Contestant for the sole purpose of publication on DMs Guild after the completion of the Contest.
That most contests do this still doesn't make it right, or ethical.It has been a while, so you may have read this by now, but most contests require you to give up the rights to anything you submit:
"Entrant acknowledges and agrees that he/she/they is/are the sole author of his, her, their entry, that he/she/they own/owns the copyright in and to his/her/their entry, and that the entry does not infringe any third-party rights (including without limitation, copyright, trademark, trade dress rights, or rights of privacy or publicity). By entering this Contest, entrant hereby grants Wizards a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, publish and distribute entries submitted without payment of any compensation or consideration to any entrant or any other person or entity (except the prizes awarded to the winners pursuant to these Official Rules). By entering this Contest, entrants agree that Wizards may post their entries online and has the right to use the entries, including, without limitation, by making it available for download, along with entrant’s name on Wizards’ website and in any and all publicity and advertising or other promotions by Wizards without any further attribution, notification or compensation to Entrants."
I wonder why just that short list of countries?"The Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, Canada (excluding Quebec), the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand."
Quebec seems to almost always be left out of contests that include the rest of Canada, so just that is never a sign other Canadians cannot participate.