| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
|---|---|
| Subject: | DRAGONS Available |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:04:06 +0100 |
the street was...
> It is my understanding that, unless it is explicitly stated that you can
> alter an online document (ie, convert to another format), it breaches the
> copyright even if it is for personal use. Any lawyers out there know
> more? If it is a breach, I strongly discourage converting the files to
> other formats as we do not wish to discourage FASA from releasing
> material on the web.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that prohibiting changing the doc to
another format for personal use is nonsense. That would mean you can't
even _open_ RTF documents, for example -- word processors (or at least MS
Word) will convert them to their own format before displaying them on-
screen. Furthermore, a printed-out copy could be considered a different
format than the original...
I say use common sense: if it's for your own use only, what they hell? As
long as you don't give copies of the modified (in whatever way) document
to anyone else, I don't see a problem.
Finally, what you don't know won't hurt you.
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