How is this by any means legal? Or even needed? Do the mods INTEND on claiming contest entries as their own and publishing them as their own work?
All I'm sayin is...
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It's kind of cute though!solidfoamsoul wrote:If such a suit happens, you agree to let us win.
I think it's that part that bothers me. It sounds downright childish.
solidfoamsoul wrote:If such a suit happens, you agree to let us win.
I think it's that part that bothers me. It sounds downright childish.
Now for the contest disclaimer. To summarize: You are saying you are entering with FULL KNOWLEDGE that if you win they're going to use your entry, tweak it, may resprite it, may re-write sections, and are going to post it and other wise polish it to make it fit here. And because you know that IN ADVANCE. You give up the right to sue them because you AGREED to let them do it in the first place. It's actually a simplified version of the 'official contest lingo' and 'official posting other folks art' lingo. You should see the eye-crossing legalese that Deviant art has and the hue and cry it caused because to many of those not fluent in legalese it sounded like they were trying to claim all intellectual property rights (which they weren't they were just claiming the DERIVITIVE rights they needed to post the pieces and do things like pick pictures of the day and all the other things they do.)Any creature you create (that is one you invented yourself) is your property. The CONCEPT is your property (see the argument on Thestrals in the Creature Suggestion thread for many more details.) You are, by entering the contest saying to magistream: You may use THIS VERSION of my creature and have your sprite artists sprite it, and tweak my write up to put in 'Alasre Mountains' instead of "Outer Mongolia," fix the spelling mistakes, and other wise make it fit the Magistream theme and consistent with the game and the world... and you have the right to actually post all this and use it. Otherwise it's your critter, no one but magistream can use it without your permission and you can, legally, do whatever you want with it else where. Now you CANNOT use the specific sprites someone else made of your critters. Their art is theirs... your critter is yours.
This is much more limited when you're doing a write up of a specific real or mytholigical creature (say you're doing a Duck.) You cannot tell other people they cannot draw ducks. After all you do not own ducks. The idea you post here is for a specific magical variety of duck and if people what to use other things than your idea of duck there's nothing you can do about it. You're telling magistream that they can use your idea of a duck, with all the same uses described above, but it's still your idea of the duck.