This is one of the great unresolved questions of packet-submission quizbowl. In general, no copyright transfer agreement is ever signed between host and participant, so there is some ambiguity. Custom dictates (the Penn Bowl fiasco (attempting to prohibit BYU from posting its *unused* Penn Bowl submission) a few years ago notwithstanding) that it belongs to both the host and the writer. This is analogous to submission of an article to non-corporate scientific journal, which gives the journal certain rights, and the author certain rights as well. Typically the author is able to circulate preprints (not final typeset) or republish work in a collection, but not submit to another journal. Editors are able to reprint the article in their own journal, sell it electronically, and do things with the final typeset version. Since I believe questions do belong to both writer/submitting team and editor/host, and to encourage membership in qbtrade, I will allow either, unless someone can show me a contract prohibiting it (at which time I will remove the offending questions). In addition, anyone who joins will at a minimum get a set of Deep Bench 2000, Minnesota Junior Bird 2001, and Deep Bench 2001 (when available). -- David Levinson (c) 2001 By:myamphigory Date:10/30/01 10:37 am I was just a bit confused - do questions submitted to an invitational tournament belong to the team that ran the tournament or the team that submitted them? It just seems like there might be a fair amount of double-posting if you count it both ways, as the original post seemed to imply. srf
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