[gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?

[Jack Jenkins]

If the FBI comes after you for possessing a digital downloaded
copy of a book that you have paid for, please let me know, as I
will immediately start writing senators about such a ridiculous
waste of time and money.

--- 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? It seems
> kinda 
> silly to ask the question, but it is of use to me, because
> hauling 
> around a laptop is a lot easier than hauling around my entire
> GURPS 
> collection when I'm heading to cons and the like.
> 
> It seems somewhat analogous to ripping a CD for using on my
> own MP3 player?
> 
> Anyhow, the legal part was just idle curiosity, I am more
> interested in 
> how it plays.
> 
> Bay
> 
> Syndaryl wrote:
> > From: Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>
> >>> Explicitly illegal, unless you buy them (from e23).
> >> if you are using it for your own use it not illegal
> >> (fair-use apply)
> > 
> > That's not "Fair-use". "Fair use" is scanning or typing in a
> small part of the text (such as for a GM screen, a review, or
> a research paper on the subject). The whole thing is not "fair
> use". Copyright law is not about money, it's about the right
> to copy. You may be confusing trademark, which is a different
> issue and might apply to the GURPS logo, but not to the text
> of the book.
> > 
> > Emily
> > 
> > 
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