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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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