Thread:VeganCritter/@comment-32952508-20180316174213/@comment-27025402-20180317062859

Hi, Drake!

Given that D&D Beyond's articles are copyrighted by a company, it's not appropriate for a communally-authored wiki that is itself licensed as CC BY-SA. Essentially, D&D Beyond would need to give permission for the wiki to publish, alter, and continue revising their synopses—and for the general public to do the same.

That means people could use text content from the wiki for commercial uses by crediting the wiki, not by crediting D&D Beyond (which would have been only one of many contributors to the wiki). Credit would be fairly fleeting anyway, as the synopses would no doubt change dramatically from whatever D&D Beyond publishes as they're revised to fit the style and structure of the wiki. As a simple example, this wiki uses present tense for episode synopses (like similar wikis) whereas D&D Beyond uses past tense. Other changes to the text would be more significant.

I lean toward business as usual. Several Critters have published episode synopses on various websites over the years. If those Critters decided to contribute their synopses to the wiki, then that would be a straightforward community contribution (as opposed to a derivative work based in part on a company's copyrighted content, like with D&D Beyond).

Since it seems that most of the synopsizing Critters are not editors here at the wiki, and since there's too much content for us to handle with so few editors, maybe it would be worthwhile to reach out to the synopsizers and ask if we can integrate their synopses into the wiki. Some of the sites I know about:
 * https://vox-machina.tumblr.com/
 * http://eponymous-rose.tumblr.com/critrolepara
 * http://eponymous-rose.tumblr.com/critrolesummaries
 * http://www.projectderailed.com/critical-role-recap/
 * http://www.thegeeklygrind.com/tag/critical-role/

Also, and maybe this is just me, but I see the role of the wiki as less of a "here's a brief episode synopsis the day after it airs" and more of a "here's the encyclopedic entry for this [episode/character/item] with timestamped references and also cross-referenced details from previous and future episodes."

What are your thoughts (or anyone else reading this)?

Thanks! VC