[gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?

[Matt Riggsby]

On 3/31/08, Bay Grabowski <bay at umail.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> To be a little more clear, on the legal side of things, if I buy, say,
> Basic Set: Characters, then scan or download the books to make a PDF for
> backup just for personal use, this is still illegal?

IANAL, but my impression is that it is ALWAYS a violation of copyright
to obtain a PDF which someone else has scanned in, unless you're
getting it from SJ Games themselves.  SJ Games has the right to
distribute their work (or, more generally, set conditions on the
circumstances under which it is distributed); other people do not.  I
*think*, though I'm not sure, that it's legal to make your own scan of
your own book, but you can't distribute it.  The analagous situation
is that you're allowed to rip your own CDs, but you are not allowed to
download MP3s even if you own the CD.  Going the other way, you can
buy a PDF from SJ Games and print it out for your own use, but you're
not allowed to give anyone else your copy.



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