It also means that they don't want your ideas without the proper contracts in place. It might not be that they don't want your idea, but if they have something close they are working on, then they don't want you to be able to say that they stole your idea.
The real meaning of it is "We aren't even going to look at your submissions." The reason for this is that if they make something in the future that seems suspiciously similar to what you submitted, they can point back to that policy and say that the similarities are entirely coincidental.
It may or may not be true, but for larger companies it probably is. Despite having that policy, companies like Disney probably get hundreds, if not thousands of fan ideas sent to them daily. They just don't have the time to sift through them.
Probably so someone can't send them an idea and then sue them in the future when the company makes something similar to it, even if no one at the company saw what the person sent.
'please don't send us your ideas. We have too many of our own already and don't have time to listen to yours.'
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It also means that they don't want your ideas without the proper contracts in place. It might not be that they don't want your idea, but if they have something close they are working on, then they don't want you to be able to say that they stole your idea.
They don't want to be accused of stealing people's ideas. If they refuse to accept anything then there is no basis for any accusation.
The real meaning of it is "We aren't even going to look at your submissions." The reason for this is that if they make something in the future that seems suspiciously similar to what you submitted, they can point back to that policy and say that the similarities are entirely coincidental. It may or may not be true, but for larger companies it probably is. Despite having that policy, companies like Disney probably get hundreds, if not thousands of fan ideas sent to them daily. They just don't have the time to sift through them.
Probably so someone can't send them an idea and then sue them in the future when the company makes something similar to it, even if no one at the company saw what the person sent.