Talk:Pig and Whistle

Thanks for that work, Cubist! — ShadowWolf 21:18, 28 August 2007 (EDT)

De nada!
Question: Who gets the credit for creating this thing? That is, who holds the copyright on it? This is of more than academic interest, since there's a fair chance that some of the stories for this setting might end up in one of the ANTHROlogy paperbacks, which, in turn, means that it'd be nice to address the question of who gets the "creator's cut" of whichever profits (if any)... Cubist 06:05, 29 August 2007 (EDT)

I'd have to say nobody. This creation arose out of numerous conversations and e-mail exchanges. While it seems, to me, that I instigated it—I can't say that I deserve creators rights. At the same time I can't say whether anyone else that participated in the design deserves them either. What this means is that I'd rather we run this as a trust—that is, everyone listed on the byline has equal rights. If it comes to a head—such as someone wishing to use the setting as the backdrop for a commercial project—then there should be some form of trust such that whatever community grows up around PAW benefits from it rather than any one individual. — ShadowWolf 15:12, 29 August 2007 (EDT)

Rules for submission (Or how I learned to keep the record straight.)

Speaking from my experience as one who came in via reading the years of TBP stories produced, I believe there are some very critical rules that are required to help keep the story universe from turning in to an incoherent jumble that is confusing to read and impossible to keep track of in any meaningful way either as reader or writer.

These rules are for a story to be canon. One may still write stories in the setting that remain non-canon.

1. The author must note the timeframe, as specific as possible, into a date range on the story universe timeline. While a vague range is expected, it should be ideally given within the right year.
2. Any cannon story must be included on the central repository. You can still display it elsewhere, still retain rights to it, it just must be filed on the central repository. As a reader coming in to the scene as TBP was apparently falling apart, it became incredibly aggravating to try and find the stories to read. Many stories are effectively lost to the ages. Erosion of the founded history of the story universe will kill it quite dead.
3. Now this rule is somewhat more up to opinion. The inclusion of your PaW story as canon means you authorize its duplication into a collected work of all the PaW stories. You lose no rights. You only authorize the story be able to be printed in book form if for some reason in future this can be arranged. Not-for-profit and what not of course included in the legal jargon.

- Timelord 02:44, 26 September 2007 (EDT)