apocolyptica help!
wizopizo:
If no one can steal the work from this cite and the forge protects against Intellectual property theft or anything related, then i would love to post the whole game for everyone to check out.
bosky:
If you're worried about theft why not just put your work under a free, protected license like Creative Commons? You can even specify whether people can use it commercially and other parameters, and it's actually legally binding instead of just randomly putting Copyright!!!1! on and thinking that does anything.
Regardless I don't think anyone is going to steal your groundbreaking idea ;P
BubbaBrown:
Any mechanics and methods in the game cannot be protected under copyright. In theory, those can be patented, but since the novelty of dice rolling and pen and paper mechanics way in the pass... No chance there.
Any unique literature and story elements are protected under an implicit copyright by the creation of the material. This can be reinforced by putting an explicit notice on the material and maintaining ownership of an authoritative original source of the material. (The original file.) Publishing it online isn't going to protect it any less. In fact, in some cases publishing it online with a date stamp can sometimes protect the material better by publicly advertising the work and owner. Same concept as of getting the source materials notarized or mailing a copy of the materials to yourself and keeping them a sealed envelope with the postmark date. It just establishes a point of reference for any contention.
Also, your average website can't protect from intellectual property theft, unless you are paying them to have a team of lawyers ready to pummel anyone who tries. In the user agreement upon getting an account on the site, there is usually a clause stating whether or not the material posted on the site remains the property of the poster or becomes the property of the website. That's as far any website goes.
Realistically... No organizations with the capability to effectively steal intellectual property and make actual money off of it is going to bother with anything they see on the web or someone's "secret project". Why? They got an entire staff for creating ideas that are under tight contracts and paid for. No one wants to deal with the legal hassle of it all. And you are going to put off many people who can help you if you they have to play the whole "Non-Disclosure Agreement" game.
Just stick the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives License on it and get it out there. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ) Frankly, anyone going to steal ideas and pawn them off as their own are going to go for FAR bigger targets than someone's pet side project.
wizopizo:
thank you so much, some time soon i would like to put it up on that site and give a link here in this post for all to enjoy, the entire hard to understand game haha. But if you can grasp the concepts of it, many avid tabletop players like apoc more than most other tabletops. So once again thank you, enjoy, and i will ask for help on editing and artistic work if people desire to do so.
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