Forum:New Ownership Ideas

Based on what Central Wikia's representative has written on my user talk page - that the community decides ownership/property rights of submitted content, not the GFDL or central wikia - I have decided that these rules might be better suited to an imaginative community.

People wanting to contribute here will be really put off by the current rules of ownership. Creative people want to be sure that they own the content they submit, ie. that someone can't just take whatever they put here and run with it. Others should be able to copy articles on here, but they should NOT be allowed to produce spinoffs of any thing one writes and places on this site. Additionally, the authors should be able to produce spinoffs of anything they submit here. So I suggest that creators' rights include (but maybe aren't limited to the following):


 * Right to have their content deleted or petition against its deletion from this site
 * Right to copy and modify and produce spinoffs of their own work, as well as anything they submit as part of a collaboration, provided that it does not infringe on others' rights
 * Right to demand that others not produce spinoffs of the author's work
 * Right to demand that others must attribute the work, and copies thereof, to the author
 * Right to revert or incorporate any changes that others do to author's work
 * Right to multiple license any articles they wrote on this site elsewhere as well as any spinoffs, ie. to republish the article and to publish stories based off the ideas they set forth on this site in their articles
 * Right to demand that others not incorporate the author's ideas in others' articles
 * Right to grant and deny others permission to work with their articles or concepts therein

Hope this helps,

18:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)