For those of you who use RpgRevolution
Edit: Ientry also owns the RpgMakerVX dot net community for anyone else who might be unaware of that.
We saw an announcement at a few other boards, and figured we’d pass it along a heads up. There’s some potentially nasty legal stuff from the team at iEntry who now owns RpgRevolution & it’s forums.
From their corporate legal notice, linked at the bottom of the pages:
“iEntry and is designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use your Submissions and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.”
Luckily, you didn’t agree to these terms while signing up for the forums beforehand, and any good lawyer should be able to get a case against them settled if they do decide to do something with your submissions. We’re not sure about the site itself - didn’t see the original terms. However, you might want to hold off on posting things you’d use commercially or wouldn’t like to see resold just incase. This includes both resources for any rpg maker, and your finished games/demos. The RRR forum moderators are apparently looking into this issue
January 24th, 2009 at 12:22 am
One more thing to add - when RRR / Rpg Rpg Revolution was first sold at a sitepoint auction (ID: 46368, for $14000), the original owner included this in his description about the site:
“Everything on the site is user-submitted content that’s copyrighted towards the site. Most of it is unique [...] It has tons of games [...]“
March 7th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
he really sold it like that? what an ass
October 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pm
This of course no longer applies though, does it? Or if it does, so far they have not stolen anyone’s content without the users permission? Which would suggest everything is fine. I know at the time a lot of users panic but it seems to have stopped now which is why I’d like to double check. :)