Submission + - New ToU @ WotC lets them steal all user content (wizards.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Recently at Wizard of the Coast, the implementation of a new "Gleemax" service required them to update their online Code of Conduct and add a "Wizards.com & Gleemax.com Website Terms of Use" document. In that new document Wizards has claimed ownership of all user submitted content. Due to the nature of the popular forums where "homebrew" content is submitted in massive quantities, this is a horrible decision as it will almost certainly drive away anyone not interested in having their intelluctual works confiscated and sold for profit without so much as a "thank you"
Below is the relevant section of the "Wizards.com & Gleemax.com Website Terms of Use" that lets them steal any User Content that they want.
1. User Content
By posting or submitting any text, images, designs, video, sound, code, data, lists, or other materials or information (such User-submitted content, collectively, "User Content") to or through a Site, including without limitation on any User profile page, you hereby irrevocably grant to Wizards, its affiliates and sublicensees, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sub-licensable license, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such User Content (in whole or in part) in any media and to incorporate the User Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed. The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction.
Below is the relevant section of the "Wizards.com & Gleemax.com Website Terms of Use" that lets them steal any User Content that they want.
1. User Content
By posting or submitting any text, images, designs, video, sound, code, data, lists, or other materials or information (such User-submitted content, collectively, "User Content") to or through a Site, including without limitation on any User profile page, you hereby irrevocably grant to Wizards, its affiliates and sublicensees, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sub-licensable license, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such User Content (in whole or in part) in any media and to incorporate the User Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed. The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction.
