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INTEREST: BONES Asks Public Not to Submit Unsolicited Story Ideas

they said "unsolicited" - that means stories that people submit to the company without being asked. i.e. nothing to do with contests. material sent to contests is not "unsolicited".

The point is that if legal terms of this sort apply to solicited requests, such as contests, one would expect that they--if not even stricter terms--would apply to unsolicited submissions; unsolicited subimissions, by their very nature, have no expectation of anything.

I can't think of a single example of an anime being made from an unsolicited manuscript some rando mailed them. They're always either commissioned, a passion project of someone already in the industry, or from a reputable writer who likely has an agent.
Anyone who's worked in an artistic, fiction-related field will attest that 99% of the unsolicited manuscripts they receive are not worth a second glance.

ThrowMeOut wrote:

I can't think of a single example of an anime being made from an unsolicited manuscript some rando mailed them. They're always either commissioned, a passion project of someone already in the industry, or from a reputable writer who likely has an agent. Anyone who's worked in an artistic, fiction-related field will attest that 99% of the unsolicited manuscripts they receive are not worth a second glance.

It's more than likely just a boilerplate legal disclaimer. Especially notable after the KyoAni incident where they were accused of plagiarizing the arsonist's story.

AkumaChef wrote:

The point is that if legal terms of this sort apply to solicited requests, such as contests, one would expect that they--if not even stricter terms--would apply to unsolicited submissions; unsolicited subimissions, by their very nature, have no expectation of anything.

People, this is not true.

(the default is that people have "rights"; a submission process involves the creation of a contract where those rights are traded away in return for being looked at. Unsolicited submissions outside a submission process don't invoke any contract and so the default situation remains. Akumachef doesn't I think understand the normal situation and "expects" (falsely) that people have no rights to their work, which leads him astray)

AkumaChef wrote:

The point is that if legal terms of this sort apply to solicited requests, such as contests, one would expect that they--if not even stricter terms--would apply to unsolicited submissions; unsolicited subimissions, by their very nature, have no expectation of anything.

People, this is not true.

(the default is that people have "rights"; a submission process involves the creation of a contract where those rights are traded away in return for being looked at. Unsolicited submissions outside a submission process don't invoke any contract and so the default situation remains. Akumachef doesn't I think understand the normal situation and "expects" (falsely) that people have no rights to their work, which leads him astray)