| From: | Stuart M. Willis hbiki@****.geocities.com |
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| Subject: | SR Books Online |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:48:50 +1100 |
>> I suppose as a private use that might be legitmate, but I hardly see
>>how any of us could legally assist you in you efforts.
>
>I talked to a lawyer friend of mine hypothetically about scanning
>schoolbooks (if I ever got a scanner and a notebook PC), and, IIRC, he
>said it was not legal (either that or that it was a grey area, I don't
>remember which.).
Reproducing *anything* without permission is a breach of copyright
(intellectual or otherwise).
Private use or not.
Yes, that means taping shows off TV is technically a breach of copyright.
Personally, I think a kind of SR Atlas would be the best bet for FASA to do
(I'd do it if I ran tyhe show, but I don't... .yet). It wouldn't include
actual information per se, which would encourage you to buy the sourcebooks
anyway - so they wouldn't loose much via piracy. But rather merely be a
huge index for all their sourcebooks. You wouldn't be able to search for
everything, but most things...
e.g.: the search query for a place could be "Bar, Tacoma"
and you'd get a page reference to the appropriate sourcebook and maybe even
the name of the bars, but nothing else.
as for rules, it'd merely point you were to find them [page numbers, maybe
even paragraphs]
of course the index need be heavily cross-referenced to be useful....
:-)
[ACtually, I wonder if such an index would be a breach of copyright?
Because it would be a worthy online project to do]
If they did do it, it'd be nice for them to include an electronic version
of the rulebook. I think everyone still prefers real books to electronic
books, and would merely use that in addition to their own copy of rulebook.
:) They should just PDF the whole lot.
take care,
s.
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