frill

Fyrrathul rubs his hands together in rapt enjoyment of a day’s work.

Fyrr the Black seems filled with a contented smile after having the document read aloud to him.

fyrr the black smiles in opportunity

Yeah, I originally had little to no issue with it because Muffins joined relatively recently in the life-span of the server, so hasn’t experienced a CT that hadn’t co-opted the Wilven monks (and thus the player-ran group was something that she’d have to actively research to know even existed). The contention I do have is that “uh read the terms of service” was the immediate excuse. It just don’t fit.

Non-exclusivity, royalty-free hosting, and Wilven monks *** The Wilven monks existed as a group since January 2012, serving as a group within Asulon that sought to be a “crucial part of new-player experience and be an excellent source of RP.” CT came into existence over half a decade later and wordlessly co-opted these duties, with the assumed owner of the group not being informed. On trying to make roleplay items signed as a Wilven monk of his own group, Keldrith was punished for “falsifying” lore items and the items removed from the auction house. The Community Team had assumed ownership in his absence and was not allowing him to use lore he had written. Although initially seen as a staff team co-opting the responsibilities of a group that had the same, and assuming the role of providing “player-ran” “personal, intimate assistance”, LotsOfMuffins refused to revise the lore used when asked by one of the creators of said lore. On asking why LotsOfMuffins was using the Wilven Sanctuary Monk lore as the basis for the veil for her community team’s staff personas, I was told that they had been doing so for years. After reminding LotsOfMuffins that the community team hasn’t existed for years, I was told to “check the terms of service, we can do what we want”. The basis of the staff report is going to explain just why that argument is a very bad one to use. Here it is; This is a standard boilerplate for online web hosting; without it, the forums and server would not be able to function as they would have no license to host anything not made by LoTC (and therefore nothing from players) nor use players’ in-game characters. Characters are still works that belong to the author, and the author retains the copyright. Without a non-exclusive (and sublicensable) license, the server would not be able to function as the work created by players needs to be shared on LoTC services for people to see it. However, this does not mean that the content uploaded to LoTC is copyright free, and does not allow administrators or players alike to grant themselves copyright ownership. With this form of agreement, the player has signed an agreement for use between LoTC and themself, licensing the use on LoTC but retaining rights to the creation. Agreeing to licensing doesn’t overrule copy-right ownership and are a bare-bones necessity for the platform to function. To say that the copy-right owner (Keldrith!) may no longer use nor dispose of his work while still using the license he granted the server to host his work as an excuse to instead have the Community Team use the work entirely (without being a significant alteration nor derivation) is very poor form for any person, let alone an administrator of the server. The licensing agreement can’t, and shouldn’t, be used as a basis for administrators to take lore from its creators and refuse the creators use of their own lore. To deflect onto it as an argument is a pathetic handwave. also unban me from the lotc discord. you banned me for pointing this out 4head

@LotsOfMuffins when I brought this up in the meeting today why did you say “it’s been over a year so we can use the lore” and then kick me from the Discord? You told me to check the terms of service but that doesn’t have some statute of limitations for plagiarism. pathetic

[here] I think the idea of Wilven monks as player helping-hands from the Wilven Sanctuary and crypt monks as reviving-NPCs of the cloud temple has just been lost by the Community Team coming into existence and co-opting the “player-ran” “personal, intimate assistance” aspect into a staff responsibility for a team that just didn’t exist back then.

i spit in your orc hole

+1 i hope you get the rank bro

hi nick

americans only believe america exists

fyrrathul frowns sadly 😞

junar is the dutch word for epic

IGN : frill RP NAME : fyrr Skills you can bring to the table : i love the sound of breaking glass