Talk:The Bleeding Tree/@comment-24.104.140.59-20150202181838/@comment-1988716-20150202212939

To avoid confusion, we avoid using "Fear" in any official context when it comes to Outer Ideas. Outer Ideas are quite simple: Generally, Fears are Creative Commons 3.0-- but Outer Ideas are things that some people write as "Fears" but that are not Creative Commons 3.0. Like The Slender Man, which is actually trademarked and to write with it is legally kinda murky (though as long as we don't try to profit off it we're fine). The Rake and The Bleeding Tree were not created with Fears in mind-- they were not created for Creative Commons. Legally speaking, they are closer to "copyrighted" than not. So in those cases, we make sure to not lump them under the same group as the rest of the Fears in official contexts.

Any questions?

(And yeah, Sal has said different things about The Inferno. Publically he originally made it very clear The Inferno is a Fear, which is where the confusion stemmed in the first place. I imagine he's changed his tune ever since I had a... shall we say, talk with him.)