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HARP / Re: HARP Community Content Program?
« Last post by Jakob on Today at 08:09:44 PM »@craig:
While you're not wrong in everything you outline, it also bears notice that copyright is quite generally a field riddled with "We'll find out how exactly it works when someone goes to court about it."
I think a community content program for HARP could be really great, simply because it might be a platform to get HARP more visibility. Create a HARP CC logo, advertise the program, get people publishing in it, most of all, make the conditions fair - none of this "if you publish in our CCP program, we reserve the right to use all of your IP published through it" crap publishers like Schwalb Entertainment are coming up with. Basically just say: "You can write stuff that works with our rules, referencing them as needed, we want a small cut, you retain all the rights in everything you've written and published, and you'll have peace of mind that we're okay with what you're doing."
While you're not wrong in everything you outline, it also bears notice that copyright is quite generally a field riddled with "We'll find out how exactly it works when someone goes to court about it."
I think a community content program for HARP could be really great, simply because it might be a platform to get HARP more visibility. Create a HARP CC logo, advertise the program, get people publishing in it, most of all, make the conditions fair - none of this "if you publish in our CCP program, we reserve the right to use all of your IP published through it" crap publishers like Schwalb Entertainment are coming up with. Basically just say: "You can write stuff that works with our rules, referencing them as needed, we want a small cut, you retain all the rights in everything you've written and published, and you'll have peace of mind that we're okay with what you're doing."