One of the things that came up during a conversation with Sean Patrick Fannon was licensing. If we create something really creative, compelling, and popular, there is the potential that someone might want to do a movie or book deal. With the current terms we have, this could potentially be a deal killer or at least make it really difficult to negotiate.
The question is whether this matters to the Swarm? It's definitely a long shot, but if we were to get into that situation, would we want to limit ourselves?
This came up because of spam,
This came up because of spam, but still - I think that the smart thing to do with licensing is to license the product of our creativity at a specific point in time. Since this is a changing work-in-progress by definition, what we would do is to license the setting and whatever else up to a certain point, but not beyond.
Another option is possibly to license it forever, but this could be a challenge for whoever is working with us because the licensed 'product' could change over time.
Definitely a long shot. Whatever money comes from the licensing would just be split the way that money from publishing a setting book or whatever.
hmmm...well I would assume
hmmm...well I would assume that people will continue to have a say in the project through-out its creation and I think to do that best a group will have to be formed as this whole process moves along made up of people that contribute the different ideas and what not...I would say wait until something like this exist to pose this question and deal with it on a project by project basis.