No, they wouldn't obtain rights to works you don't own because you don't have the rights and even if you had a license to use the material you still do not have the right to grant others the license and in terms of content posted to the community you would have to have a license that allowed you to grant them a license or by the terms and services you can't upload it . Honestly WOT probably don't care about your character or homebrew and honestly is likely more because well there is so much homebrew and stuff that there is a non zero chance they accidently create very similar things, for example I'm sure there was already a slime race in the homebrew section and this means even if you think they might have copied you, you can't sue them. before the purchase the odd are because they didn't own the platform and your homebrew is created within there creative commons license you ether didn't have the copy right before or they could claim ignorance as the platform was unaffiliated.

So basically- the new Terms of Service is specifically there to protect WOTC right to steal what it wants from creators with no repercussions and protects none of our rights to have discretion on how our content is used.

I understand there are a million edge cases here and that FANDOM always had the right to use our characters and homebrew- but at least they are upfront and at least a little bit communicative about the matter.

I don't trust WOTC to not steal what it wants at the detriment of small creators. They shortchange so many brilliant writers and it's just so awful. It doesn't benefit the community in the slightest. I couldn't begin to tell you how disparaged I feel about this change in ownership.

The big question I saw was, will wizards of the coast pair physical and digital copies i.e. if you already own or purchase later on, a physical copy of wotc rulebooks, will you be able to access digital copies of those rulebooks?

Will we be able to link the hardcopy books to dndbeyound after May 18 or will we still have to buy both the hard copy and the digital content for here?

Maybe there will be a possibility to translate to German as well for my non English fluent people :D

am i finally going to be able to transer phisical books to dnd beyond

Why not movies work that way?

Will the tangible books purchased be linkable to our account. It is frustrating to have to double purchase something to have access to it online. I personally along with many prefer the tangibility of my purchases when it comes to this sort of expenses. I have groups that still prefer old school dnd. It is rude and let plainly be forthright, greedy to have someone by twice the same thing and even more so if a membership is required to obtain full service. I am certain that I am not the only one thinking this.

So basically any homebrew content I create WotC can then market and sell...ya no thanks....see ya on FGU every1 ( Or Questhaven when it launches next year)

will wizards of the coast allow us to put our physical books on DND beyond?

So do we need to make any changes or will our accounts on here automatically migrate to the WotC system?

this is sad for the old characters that are used in campaigns hope we can use them in wotc

exciting! can't wait for bad news 

wait means updates my time

I'm more curious if they'll allow those of us who buy their books in hardback form to have a code that lets us have the book on here also. If not I'll be disappointed.

You say that but you already have access to your friends sharing their data with you, so someone like me who owns every non campaign book they've put out has never spent a dime on t his sight yet I still have access to those resources on here. So I see that being no different then what's already going on. Secondly comics have lost some value over time due to being able to get them online and read them, however true collectors will still pay that price for the first Spiderman comic that had the Punisher in it. JS

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Will Wizards own my homebrew content created on D&D Beyond?

Wizards has no intent of taking ownership over user content you put on D&D Beyond, and the Terms of Service will not grant us such rights. The permissions we will need for user content will relate to allowing us to operate the D&D Beyond service, including displaying that content on our site.

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I'm more curious if they'll allow those of us who buy their books in hardback form to have a code that lets us have the book on here also. If not I'll be disappointed.

 FULLY AGREE