[gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?

[Classified TS/BBR]

If you prefer .PDF to .DTF the 4th Edition Basic Set books are now available 
from e23... Buy them instead of (or in addition to) the .DTFs & no longer be 
in the position of having illegal .PDFs...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bay Grabowski" <bay at umail.ucsb.edu>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?


> 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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