So, basically they rob indies of their ideas, refuse to sponsor and publish and forward the ideas to their own studios to make and sell them, do I see this right?

Or is there any clause that rejects any right on the game (concept) to Craptivision in case of non sponsoring and non publishing by them?

Hmm, gonna check this out more closely.... might be a cool thing, given you have an expensive lawyer at your side.

Too bad I'm not located in the US anyway.... but I know someone who is :D

From what I gather, if you do submit an idea and decide to go commercial with it later on, Activision gets first dibs when it comes to publishing. Whether or not they'd actually enforce such a rule is a different story. It's likely to protect themselves from any suits down the road. Say Activision unintentionally ends up developing a title in the future that's similar to one of the contest entries, this gives them legal protection over such a scenario.

Probably standard practice when any huge company kicks off a contest like this.

Hmm.... yeah, that actually makes sense....

If they are the first to say "if, the WE publish it" - he, no prob there xD But it's kind hard to find out if they came on "a similar idea" themself or by.... well.... go figure ;)

Anyway, this could be cool.... gotta check it out :D