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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5380301" data-attributes="member: 19675">The thing is, just like a penny, it DOES have value in the real world.In the music biz, copyright lawsuits have been brought and won over bits as small as a hook or beat...sometimes over demo tapes sent to a record company you and have never heard.&nbsp; Conceivably, the same potential exists here: nobody wants to be sitting around in a run-down trailer eating pork &amp; beans from a can 2 meals a day when a novel about their 1000 foot tall Halfling thief just got greenlighted for a 3 movie deal.So, the concern is justified...a little.&nbsp; But mere ToS isn't going to transfer your rights.&nbsp; The ToS is more like a &quot;Beware of Dog!&quot; sign so that when said novels and movies come out, they don't have to face lawsuits from the hundreds of people who have all used CB to make 1000 foot tall Halfling thieves.IOW, it's a deterrent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5380301, member: 19675"] The thing is, just like a penny, it DOES have value in the real world. In the music biz, copyright lawsuits have been brought and won over bits as small as a hook or beat...sometimes over demo tapes sent to a record company you and have never heard. Conceivably, the same potential exists here: nobody wants to be sitting around in a run-down trailer eating pork & beans from a can 2 meals a day when a novel about their 1000 foot tall Halfling thief just got greenlighted for a 3 movie deal. So, the concern is justified...a little. But mere ToS isn't going to transfer your rights. The ToS is more like a "Beware of Dog!" sign so that when said novels and movies come out, they don't have to face lawsuits from the hundreds of people who have all used CB to make 1000 foot tall Halfling thieves. IOW, it's a deterrent. [/QUOTE]

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