Maybe now we can get some REAL CUSTOMER SERVICE..... 

Read the comments, it has been clarified several times already, and I doubt they would ever want to 'steel' your work unless you're Matt Mercer. Read the comments, you are safe. Stop freaking out like all these other people.

I've linked my WotC account to my dndbeyond account already. Will they merge? or will i have to keep track of two separate accounts

I don't have a good feeling about this merger. If feels like its designed to benefit WoC more than their customers. I hope I'm wrong. 

That's why Ive seen bookstores wrap their books in plastic to try keeping people from stealing or whatnot

really cool

Is everyone really worried about Terms of Use? As if Facebook and all that doesn't own all their pictures?

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Any plans for posibility of adding phisical books to your library (dunno if the books have some universal id and all its real)? 

Not even sure how that would be implemented. Plenty of people would just walk into stores, take a photo of the code on the inner cover, and cheese it.

There's so many differences between digital and physical products, that making a 2-for-1 deal is almost certainly going to result in either digital retailers or physical retailers get screwed over. If you can get a free digital copy from the physical book, why pay for the digital version and vice-versa? (My assumption of the general public, not my personal statement. I personally found myself in a situation of buying both, but that came from my refusal to "get with the times" biting me in the rear under special circumstances.)

 They would probably put the code on the checkout recipt

@ ZestandXaxe

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Your intellectual property (IP) technically remains yours, but my reading of the above is:

1. WOTC is allowed to make money off your IP any way it wants to, including making its own versions of your stuff, and changing it and adding to it in any way they want to, and they don't have to give you credit for it when they use it.

2. You can't force WOTC to share any of those profits with you in any way.

3. You give up the right to sue WOTC whenever it does any of this stuff even if you go on later to make money off your own IP including trademarking it.

I think WotC was like big company looking down on a small business and thinking "Oh that's cute. It won't last." Then years later, Dndbeyond grows and gets more and more attention and members (Both DM's and Players) suddenly WotC goes "Oh Sh*t, they are stronger than we thought, let's buy them." Hopefully, both team can work together rather than against. Good Luck to everyone and keep building worlds. 

D&D Beyond was their flagship distributer long before then. They would have had to get the license to use the Dragon Ampersand, and use the D&D name in order to stay in business. WoTC didn't suddenly find out about D&D Beyond, they were aware long ago.

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 They would probably put the code on the checkout recipt

 That's brilliant. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I suddenly remember getting codes like this in the past.

I swear, if a buxom wood elf druid named Mistress Sheilara shows up in as a character in that Chris Pine movie AND she uses my homebrew spell, "Lustful Gaze..." Wizards is going to have some explaining to do!

Wish wizards didn't buy, hopefully I get proven wrong.

I think this is the bullshit part as well. . "The foregoing grants shall include the right to: (i) exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction; (ii) your name, likeness, and any other information included in your User Content, without any obligation to you. You waive any and all claims that any use by us or our licensees of your User Content violates any of your rights, including moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary, attribution, or other rights, and rights to any material or ideas contained in your User Content."

I'll show Has-brah! As soon as the copyright on Dungeons & Dragons expires in 2068, I'll make my own Dungeons & Dragons game that will make me millions (which is probably not that much in 2068). That'll get us even for all of the millions of dollars Has-brah is going to make off of my intellectual property. I mean, sure, if my ideas were that good, they could just hire me to design games for like $80,000 a year, but instead, they're going to spend vast amounts more in manhour labor to comb every inch of dndbeyond for the five good ideas that any of us have actually had over the course of the last seven years.

Here is one of the big reasons why Wizards of the Coast bought dndbeyond: Hasbro stock is down big, something like 20% over the pandemic. Wizards of the Coast is the only division at Hasbro that has not only made money, but also increased their market by almost 50%. A very large chunk of that money has come from the license that fandom uses to sell digital copies of D&D books. Ergo, why continue splitting the revenue with a third party or spend millions in developing their own digital tool set (that would only accomplish dividing the market), when they can just purchase the third party and keep all the revenue? Nobody is trying to steal your homebrews.

I guarantee that your Google account, Amazon account, Kroger Plus Shoppers card, Truth Social membership, Subway punchcard, 4-digit McDonald's PIN, and the straight up checking account at your local bank all data mine you harder than Hasbro owned dndbeyond will. 

I've spoken my mind, no more from me. Peace out.

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I think this is the bullshit part as well. . "The foregoing grants shall include the right to: (i) exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction; (ii) your name, likeness, and any other information included in your User Content, without any obligation to you. You waive any and all claims that any use by us or our licensees of your User Content violates any of your rights, including moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary, attribution, or other rights, and rights to any material or ideas contained in your User Content."

 
Again. This language is already in the current terms and conditions which you already agreed to, with one major change - Wizards’ T&C is actually more protective of your rights than the current situation.

It’s a little silly that dozens of folks have been pointing out this fact for days, but people still keep making a mountain out of a molehill on this issue.

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Any plans for posibility of adding phisical books to your library (dunno if the books have some universal id and all its real)? 

Not even sure how that would be implemented. Plenty of people would just walk into stores, take a photo of the code on the inner cover, and cheese it.

There's so many differences between digital and physical products, that making a 2-for-1 deal is almost certainly going to result in either digital retailers or physical retailers get screwed over. If you can get a free digital copy from the physical book, why pay for the digital version and vice-versa? (My assumption of the general public, not my personal statement. I personally found myself in a situation of buying both, but that came from my refusal to "get with the times" biting me in the rear under special circumstances.)

 What if they did something like allow you to order a physical copy of the books you own digitally on DDB from the DDB (soon to be WotC/Hasbro) website at a discount. Even if it was just one copy per lifetime I would appreciate that.