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6.1. Wizards Ownership. The Websites, Games, and Services (including all Wizards' generated content residing thereon) are the sole property of Wizards, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. We own and reserve all Intellectual Property Rights (defined below) and all other legal and exploitation rights in and to the Websites, Games, Services, and Games and all data and content included therein, including (without limitation) all in-game items and virtual currency, accounts, computer code, titles, themes, characters (including likeness and names), objects, chat logs, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, audio-visual effects, methods of operation, moral rights, any related documentation, storylines, sounds, music, and gameplay, and methods of operation (collectively, the "Game Content").
DnDBeyond owns all of your characters including the games they come from... WTF???
There’s another conversation about this elsewhere on the forums. Fandoms terms of service in this regard are similar. It’s a pretty standard clause for online service sites.
It's a garbage clause, but they posted a video discussing the subject and said outright that they won't be stealing anyone's content. It seems it pertains to being able to host homebrew content on the website and such. It's still Sus.
For the OP's purposes, this is going to be redundant--I already posted the same basic thing on their other thread. However, since there are two threads, and since this thread is likewise spreading misinformation and bad legal analysis, I'll post my two cents here to try and reduce some of the rampant and unwarranted alarmism.
The portion of the T&C that you are posting deals with WIZARDS' content, not player content. Wizards of course owns its own intellectual property, like the characters and dialogue that they write in their books. This term does nothing to give Wizards an ownership interest over your intellectual property.
Your intellectual property is covered by a different term. This term is also causing a lot of unnecessary fear because it grants Wizards a broad license to use your intellectual property without your permission. While this might sound scary to a layperson, it is simply a necessary term for this site to operate. Since Wizards does not own your intellectual property, it cannot distribute your IP without your permission. The license allows Wizards to distribute your IP back to you; without it, the sites would not legally be able to function. These licenses are commonplace, with Reddit, Fandom--which you are using now, Discord, and pretty much every other site where users can post content using equivalent terms.
All the freaking out over this is not "sus"--it is just a large number of people looking at legalese for the first time and not understanding either the terms or the standard purpose behind such language.
"5.2. License to Wizards. By posting or submitting any User Content to or through the Websites, Games, or Services, you hereby irrevocably grant to Wizards a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable 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: (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."
Well, no, this includes far more language than necessary for the functionality of the site. Don't publish anything you intend to market or profit from on dndbeyond.
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6.1. Wizards Ownership. The Websites, Games, and Services (including all Wizards' generated content residing thereon) are the sole property of Wizards, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. We own and reserve all Intellectual Property Rights (defined below) and all other legal and exploitation rights in and to the Websites, Games, Services, and Games and all data and content included therein, including (without limitation) all in-game items and virtual currency, accounts, computer code, titles, themes, characters (including likeness and names), objects, chat logs, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, audio-visual effects, methods of operation, moral rights, any related documentation, storylines, sounds, music, and gameplay, and methods of operation (collectively, the "Game Content").
DnDBeyond owns all of your characters including the games they come from... WTF???
There’s another conversation about this elsewhere on the forums. Fandoms terms of service in this regard are similar. It’s a pretty standard clause for online service sites.
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It's a garbage clause, but they posted a video discussing the subject and said outright that they won't be stealing anyone's content. It seems it pertains to being able to host homebrew content on the website and such. It's still Sus.
For the OP's purposes, this is going to be redundant--I already posted the same basic thing on their other thread. However, since there are two threads, and since this thread is likewise spreading misinformation and bad legal analysis, I'll post my two cents here to try and reduce some of the rampant and unwarranted alarmism.
Where's this other thread? I can't seem to locate it.
"5.2. License to Wizards. By posting or submitting any User Content to or through the Websites, Games, or Services, you hereby irrevocably grant to Wizards a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable 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: (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."
Well, no, this includes far more language than necessary for the functionality of the site. Don't publish anything you intend to market or profit from on dndbeyond.