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Question about the recent Rule 3 ruling

Metabolicjosh

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alethiophile said:
This thread attracted quite a few reports over the plagiarism issue.

QQ has a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism of stories. However, CYOAs and story prompts operate under somewhat different rules. More so than stories, they are inherently community endeavors, operating in a dialog between those who write the prompts and those who write stories to those prompts.

For this reason, QQ will allow posting modified versions or "rebalances" of CYOAs, including Waifu Catalog. However, we do not condone passing off others' work as your own, nor being an asshole over disagreements about CYOA prompts. Any CYOA content that is copied from another source must include attributions back to that source.

Leecifer has agreed to add these attributions to this document and thread. Therefore, this thread will now be reopened. Stay on the topic of the Companion Catalog specifically here. Comparative discussion over this and the other CYOAs can go in the general CYOA thread; flamewars over CYOA authors' personalities can stay off QQ.
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Hello. I have a few questions about the recent rule three ruling regarding choose your own adventure prompts that have entirely original content.

1) If we post a choose your own adventure writing prompt with original content, are we allowed to refuse to give permission for others to use our work for their own CYOA? If we are allowed to do that, then how does that interact with previously posted CYOA that might have assumed that Rule 3 meant that others needed to obtain permission to use their work and haven't had the opportunity to deny permission for reuse?

2) How does this interact with published works that we decide to post for free on QQ? While uncommon, CYOA writing prompts have been published on Amazon. Does QQ require giving up copyright when the owner posts them here for free, similarly to how some authors post their books for free on other sites?
 
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