ajanigoldmane: flavoracle: I recently posted this thread on Twitter, but I wanted to put it up here
ajanigoldmane:flavoracle:I recently posted this thread on Twitter, but I wanted to put it up here on Tumblr too so I can tag @wizardsmagic and @dougbeyermtg. (And of course so all of you can tag them if you like the idea and add your comments too!) I think theres legitimate concern in the same vein as why we can’t show off card design, but at the same time I know other major companies have interacted with fanfic and the like. From what I remember from my Media Law class in college, the major legal headaches come from being held accountable for unsolicited material (where they could potentially be sued for using ideas they saw but didn’t pay for) or from acknowledging unauthorized material that financially benefits from their intellectual property (where they could potentially lose their copyright protections on those properties if they don’t pursue legal action against the unauthorized party.) But that changes when creative works are submitted through official channels where participants legally acknowledge that they give up their rights to whatever they’re submitting. And it also helps if there is some kind of documented compensation for giving up those rights. (This is why the Readers Digest magazine would pay people for submitting original jokes and anecdotes through an official process.) If @wizardsmagic actually ASKS fans to submit their fan fiction, and the submission process includes a disclosure that participants are giving up any copyright claims on that work, then there should be almost no legal risk involved. Now keep in mind, I’m no lawyer. So if somebody else wants to chime in with more legal expertise, feel free to correct me. But from what I do know of media law, this should be just as legally feasible as GDS3 is. -- source link
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