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Kavir wrote:
What? That's a nonsensical claim considering that many of the big commercial MMORPGs do exactly what you claim they don't.
From World of Warcraft's (the biggest MMORPG) Terms of Service:
All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to World of Warcraft (including without limitation any user accounts, titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialogue, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, animations, sounds, musical compositions, audio-visual effects, methods of operation, moral rights, any related documentation, "applets" incorporated into World of Warcraft, transcripts of the chat rooms, character profile information, recordings of games played on World of Warcraft, and the World of Warcraft client and server software) are owned by Blizzard Entertainment or its licensors.
In other words, all the IP content that you, the user, create (your name, your chat, etc) are handed over to Blizzard by agreeing to the TOS.
From Sony Online Entertainment's Terms of Service (which cover EQ, EQII, Planetside, Star Wars: Galaxies, etc)
Any and all creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information that you send to us, whether at our specific request or despite our request that you not do so ("Submissions") and any and all Licensed Content shall be deemed, and shall remain, the property of SOE from the moment of creation. Accordingly, SOE shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing copyrights and all other intellectual property rights to all Submissions and Licensed Content of every kind and nature, in perpetuity, throughout the universe.
In other words, by clicking on this, you've agreed that any content you send to SOE becomes owned by SOE.
OP: What you have your volunteers agree to is consistent with what the biggest companies running MUDs/MMORPGs consider to be legal, so I wouldn't worry about it.
--matt
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