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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.

 Unfortunately people are probably only reading the first few comments and then posting a reply to the entire thread. I think you guys have laid it out well, WotC needs the ability to use your data to send your data back to you on their website, they don't want to get sued by someone because they highlighted the home-brew on Twitter, they want the ability to delete your home-brew easily if someone copyright claims it. All of this requires a level of ownership.

The idea they are going to steal your content is dumb because they would have to research if you stole it first, something they can never be 100% sure of. Also if WotC flat out stole your idea from a website they are marketing as a tool for players and DMs there would certainly be a court case. As far as I know courts have shown a company cannot misrepresent itself in bad faith and then fall back on the ToS as an easy out, although Facebook is probably pushing the boundary pretty good with their data harvesting.

If they were "inspired" by your idea then you are screwed, but they can just as easily be "inspired" by your post on Reddit, or your own blog, or whatever websites their writers read that maybe you read as well leading to creative convergence or whatever its called where two very similar things are created by two people who have never heard of the other one. 

If you are really worried about WotC someday making money off your home-brew your options are never share it with anyone, or make money/value off of it first. 

Someone asked if prices would go up...

By rights, prices should go down since D&D Beyond will presumably no longer have to pay content licensing fees? :)

Hi! How about the homebrew stuff? Will those stay?

This is standard boiler plate contractual agreement. It means that any homebrew, art, stories, anything, even your campaign worlds now become the property of WOC. If you think or feel you have something of marketable value that you want to pursue down the road, as in creating a comic, a novel, a short story, and have full rights to market that creation on your own, do not post it here on D&D Beyond. You will have zero legal legs to stand on if you take something you have published/posted here and decide to run with it and then WOC comes along and demands royalties or payment. Just a FYI. Therefore, anything you currently have posted say in the Home Brew and you want to be able to take that and monetize it or want the creative freedom to do what you wish with it, then if there is a way to delete it from the content of D&D Beyond now is the time to do so. Otherwise, you are by default agreeing that Wizards owns anything you produce on this forum.

100% agree. I read that and almost rolled my eyes out of my head.

Really hope our subscriptions are kept and the pricing doesn’t go up.

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This is standard boiler plate contractual agreement. It means that any homebrew, art, stories, anything, even your campaign worlds now become the property of WOC. If you think or feel you have something of marketable value that you want to pursue down the road, as in creating a comic, a novel, a short story, and have full rights to market that creation on your own, do not post it here on D&D Beyond. You will have zero legal legs to stand on if you take something you have published/posted here and decide to run with it and then WOC comes along and demands royalties or payment. Just a FYI. Therefore, anything you currently have posted say in the Home Brew and you want to be able to take that and monetize it or want the creative freedom to do what you wish with it, then if there is a way to delete it from the content of D&D Beyond now is the time to do so. Otherwise, you are by default agreeing that Wizards owns anything you produce on this forum.

 

 
Only your standard boilerplate point is true.  Wizards claims a license to your creations; they don’t claim ownership of them. Every one of your conclusions that follows from  the incorrect statement that Wizards “owns” your homebrew is wrong - you still own the homebrew and can use it however you want… but Wizards can use it also if they so choose.

what will happen to my our homebrew?

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what will happen to my our homebrew?

 
Right now, there’s no indication anything would change. Considering the extensive homebrew options is one of the big draws of Beyond, I doubt they are going to do away with one of the main reasons folks flock to Beyond over other alternatives. 

And, since this bears repeating for the umpteenth time, it still is your, singular possessive, homebrew.

I'm not sure if this has been answered, but following to keep an eye on it. I don't mind merging the two.

 You know I have put a lot of time & money into D&D beyond (I literately own almost all content from every book) & to be honest I do not like nor agree with the terms and conditions of WOTC and their potential ability to use content I create for their own profit without my consent as the T&C would suggest.

SO I WILL BE CANCELING MY ACCOUNT & DELETING EVERY THING I CAN.

I WANT MY $100s BACK that I paid for content I will never be able to access gain. although I know I won't get it. Now I regret not buying psychical copies of all the books.

It just makes me mad and sad that you sold out a great resource that was great because it was a fan & community focused project now It will just be another shallow WOTC cash grab companion app like the crappy Games Workshop ones. THANKS A LOT FOR SELLING OUT D&D BEYOND! and good bye. It was fun while it lasted and hope you made enough money to easy your conscience when WOTC ruins the best resource the D&D community ever had.

And you know they will.

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 You know I have put a lot of time & money into D&D beyond (I literately own almost all content from every book) & to be honest I do not like nor agree with the terms and conditions of WOTC and their potential ability to use content I create for their own profit without my consent as the T&C would suggest.

SO I WILL BE CANCELING MY ACCOUNT & DELETING EVY THING I CAN.

I WANT MY $100s BACK that I paid for content I will never be able to access gain. although I know I won't get it. Now I regret not buying psychical copies of all the books.

It just makes me mad and sad that you sold out a great resource that was great because it was a fan & community focused project now It will just be another shallow WOTC cash grab companion app like the crappy Games Workshop ones. THANKS A LOT FOR SELLING OUT D&D BEYOND! and good bye. It was fun while it lasted and hope you made enough money to easy your conscience when WOTC ruins the best resource the D&D community ever had.

And you know they will.

 
You already agreed to this set of terms under Fandom… and these terms are necessary for the site to function. Without them, Wizards would not have a license to beam your content to you over the internet, because they’d be distributing your IP without license to do so.  

You are welcome to cancel your account, but you’re doing so because you are overreacting to something that is necessary and which you were perfectly happy to agree to previously. 

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 You know I have put a lot of time & money into D&D beyond (I literately own almost all content from every book) & to be honest I do not like nor agree with the terms and conditions of WOTC and their potential ability to use content I create for their own profit without my consent as the T&C would suggest.

They're the same as the terms and conditions you were already agreeing to.

SO I WILL BE CANCELING MY ACCOUNT & DELETING EVY THING I CAN.

I WANT MY $100s BACK that I paid for content I will never be able to access gain. although I know I won't get it. Now I regret not buying psychical copies of all the books.

This is equivalent to you saying "I'm going to light all of my personal belongings on fire and throw them in the sea. Also someone please buy me new stuff". 😝

Nothing you currently own has been mis-sold; the site has always made clear what you are getting (and not getting) and under the new terms and conditions you still own everything you used to to the same degree you owned it before.

Can a mod please edit the misleading fear-mongering comments on the earlier pages to stop people from overreacting for no reason? The number of people replying to this thread with "OMG I'm going to throw all my toys out of the pram because somebody else looked at one of them" is getting ridiculous. 😂

What???? Will I lose my account??? Will I no longer be able to use D&D beyond?!?!?!?!!? I don't have a wizards of the cost acc. I will lose everything on here???? My messages to? 

Will I still keep my characters, homebrews, and content that I've purchased, or am I just out like $300?

Does this mean Unearthed Arcana might make a return?

Will the website of DnDBeyond remain the same as it was, or will the formats and everything change?

I already have account on the Wizards site with the same email I used for DND Beyond.  I have purchased ALL of the source content and created tons of homebrew. Will the two accounts cause a conflict? I can't afford to lose all the money I sunk into DND Beyond nor all the work I put into homebrew stuff

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For those of us with an account with DDB and WotC with a shared email, will this merge the accounts?

 I think this is a major question for the community in general.

Will we be able to digitalize books that we have already bought physical copies of to use in dndbetond?