I have a concern much like Kizzi's, a few topics down. It being that I first began unleashing my novel ideas in the form of role-plays in various popular websites. For those who don't know, role-playing is when someone comes up with a story, other members of the site create characters for the given setting, and then they write in their character's point of view, interacting with one another until the story is finished, one post at a time. Now, I'm still new to the idea of actually publishing any of my novel ideas and I'm clueless about rights and the such, but I would like to know if I would have any problem publishing any story that I had already shared in the form of an role-play. In other words, let's say I had an idea for a story, I shared it with other people, we talked about, they and I created characters for it and, after a while, between all of us the story is completed. Then, months later I rewrote the entire story, using my own words, and alterling many aspects of the original story to my liking, would they still have claim over the new novel?
I do hope I make my question clear. Thanks in advance!
-Flaw
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