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Anyway, my comment on blizzard...

" All rights and title in and to the Service (including without limitation any user accounts, titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialogue, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, animations, sounds, musical compositions, audio-visual effects, methods of operation, moral rights, any related documentation, "applets" incorporated into the Game Client, transcripts of the chat rooms, character profile information, recordings of games played using the Game Client, and the Game Client and server software) are owned by Blizzard or its licensors."

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If that is what blizzard thinks, then they are UTTERLY FULL OF SHIT.

If i design a character based on my life, and make if 90% authentic, does blizzard imply that they can write my autobiography and intimate previously-never-disclosed details in a book and sell it using pros before i could piddle along and sell it myself? If they beat me to it, could they enjoin or prevent me from later selling my story, or derivatives? That's like or similar to universities and schools telling students that reuse of their prior works published or unpublished is plagiarism, and thus grounds for censure/dismissal/suspension/et cetera.

If i make a character based on a nickname i used all or most of my life and it's documented (let's say someone's nickname is on their driver's license, checks, and various sites said player subscribes to), does blizzard or its attorneys think they have the right to usurp and malign, extend or otherwise republish said handles/nicknames and "productize" them? If that's what they think, they are FULL OF SHIT.

If i place a real world URL of MY own designs/drawings/inventions into a virtual world, and characters are modified by players to "build" a world or vessel or home based on my works, does blizzard think they have the right to claim that that incorporation of my works (say they are WELL (traceably) PUBLISHED on the internet well prior to joining a game)? If so, they ARE FULL OF SHIT.

Do they think they can "own" or assert some ownership in the real legal system works that existed prior to their network game even was invented? How DARE have the temerity to deviously usurp individual property/possession/performance rights of things they didn't independently invent.

Now, i'd have to read the EULA for myself, but it reeks of many earlier publishing sites for authors whose writings would for various reasons (ranging from poor quality to publishing industry cock-blocking/gatekeeping/artificial demand creating) that asked for all prior art, sketches, blueprints, designs, models, mockups, notes, ideas, discussions, and more of the book or downstream products before even discussing whether or not they'd produce an author's book. They claimed it was to ensure the submitter was the true owner, and to protect their company from lawsuits and to maintain a lawsuit-safe environment for authors to contract with, but i always felt they were trawling for invention ideas, not unlike inventor submission adverts. I once met with at least two people who claimed they could introduce me to manufacturers, and they wanted to see REAL DRAWINGS i'd made, as if i'm dumb enough to let them produce my ideas and cut me out of the profit stream. Even two banks' officers lied to me and tried to keep copies of a business plan i wrote. I demanded (in a paragraph in the plan) they not make any copies until they approved funding, and that the plan was private, proprietary, confidential, et cetera. They were lying, and in know it, because when i spotted it in its distinctive binding, the banker guffawed and hemmed and tried to play innocent. He just was too lazy to have copied it in the week he had it sitting on his desk.

ANyway, i'd like to see someone inject into blizzard some real world products they own, see blizzard try to sneak off to a real-world manufacturers' agent, and then get take to court and be found guilty if they are indeed skimming for ideas.