Thread:Jenburton/@comment-4759654-20150302184345/@comment-26009167-20150302190607

First off, I wish to correct you on how Wikia licenses their text. Copyleft means that a work can be distributed freely, but that it MUST be distributed under the same license as the original publishing. In Wikia's case, they publish their texts under CC-BY-SA, which means that you are free to share and change any texts on here, however you must give attribution to the original and also use the same license. So no, Wikia does not do public domain. (Besides, as far as I know.

As well, I'd like to quell your fears about your idea. To my knowledge, Wikia cannot take control of your idea. The idea of copyright in general is that anything original that you create is yours. That means that you can distribute it under any license you wish, whether full-on copyright, Creative Commons, or public domain. I do wish to mention that by posting it to Wikia in a form, you have given Wikia, at minimum, the ability and legal permission to display your idea to others -- but don't fret, they can't claim it as their own! Actually, if Wikia tried to claim your idea as their own, it would be copyright infringement, which itself is illegal.

Basically, since the idea originated from you, you can do whatever you so desire with it and Wikia cannot take the idea from your hands. So don't worry.

...And even if laws did say that doing what you did would take the copyright off your hands, the Wikia team is not going to hit you with a lawsuit for creating art of the characters in your game.

(To anybody: If I'm wrong on any of these points, feel free to correct me. This is just off what I personally know.)