From:	Andrew Murdoch toreador@***.bc.ca
Subject:	Shadowrun-Earthdawn Correlations
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:47:47 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Number Ten Ox wrote:

> --- abortion_engine <abortion_engine@*******.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes. <grumble grumble grumble> And I have receive confimation from FASA
> > that they won't ever be. Not even on the net. Not even through
> photocopies
> > smuggled out of the office.
>
> Makes perfect sense, actually. FASA *probably* bought from Caroline First
> North American rights and First International Rights. They lost money by
> paying her: they'd lose even more by publishing the books for a dead game.
> And they *can't* publish it on the net -- they don't have rights to
> electronic publication.

In which case, the sticky legal question of the day becomes: Who does? If,
indeed, the books weren't published in English (despite the catalog entry
I mentioned earlier), then, does Caroline have the right to publish her
own work on the 'net? Were it simply any other novel, then the answer is
yes, but, the sticky legal part of this is the fact that while her writing
is her own, it's based on someone else's idea.

Unless, of course, having gotten all the money she will out of them, she
puts 'em on the 'net under a disclaimer that she's not making money off
them in this form...

Quick! We need Caroline's email address and a copyright lawyer... =)

(Note to FASA: Sorry, guys... just the fanboy in me trying to find a way
to find books. Bibliophilia is an ugly condition sometimes...)

> Not only that, but since Queen Elizabeth was Alachia, I've been idly
> playing with plotlines that involve Francis Walsingham's network of spies
> having been recruited for downcycle dragon hunts, with the assistance of
> John Dee. You didn't really want to know the Voynich Manuscript is written
> in T'Skrang, did you? :) :)

Not having ever really seen ED, I must ask: T'Skrang?

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Raven
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