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<blockquote data-quote="anna_b" data-source="post: 4410617" data-attributes="member: 43388"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">Great to see all this interest in my mapping <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">First here is a link to the initial version of my Naerie map:</span></span></span></p><p><a href="http://ghmaps.net/maps/Naerie_v2.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">http://ghmaps.net/maps/Naerie_v2.jpg</span></span></span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">There is also a pdf version available, you can get it from my site as well.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">GamePrinter’s efforts to print my maps are indeed with my blessings !</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">His printouts will be from special high resolution originals where I haven’t used compression in order to preserve the original quality. I wished it would be possible for me to offer these on my site but the bandwidth and hosting costs would be way too high. But thanks to GamePrinter you can soon get the best possible printouts of all my maps.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">Now a comment on copyrights issues.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">WotC haven’t given me permission to make maps of Greyhawk and I haven’t asked them. In fact I don’t need a permission to make my maps and they can’t stop me from making them. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">What they can do is trying to stop me from sharing them with others. They haven’t done it so far and hopefully they will not do that in the future either. I’m not making any profit on them and not hoping to. I do it because I like Greyhawk and making maps and it gives me an opportunity to show off my skills, which have helped me in many other ways. So I get things back (even money) but only indirectly and not from my Greyhawk maps.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">What I do is good for WotC because it creates positive fuzz about role-playing and D&D. What could be bad for them is the fact that if they decided to republish Greyhawk they have to contend with the fact that my maps are out there. They could just ignore me and issue new maps or reprint their old ones. Perhaps my maps are regarded by Greyhawk fans as the best and they needed to buy them or makes better ones themselves (not at all impossible since they have way more resources and talent than I have), then my work would have increased their production costs.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">I often get the comment that my maps are the best Greyhawk maps there are, and it is true. Not because I’m especially talented but the fact that there are not many different Greyhawk maps out there. So if WotC decided to try and stop me from sharing my work it would be another good example that IP is as destructive to creativity and progress as it is beneficial. Which is a hot political debate internationally and in my country and I might need some more political ammunition. So if that happened it wouldn’t be ALL bad <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">Thanks again for your interest and comments</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white">Anna</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anna_b, post: 4410617, member: 43388"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]Great to see all this interest in my mapping :)[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]First here is a link to the initial version of my Naerie map:[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [URL="http://ghmaps.net/maps/Naerie_v2.jpg"][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]http://ghmaps.net/maps/Naerie_v2.jpg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]There is also a pdf version available, you can get it from my site as well.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]GamePrinter’s efforts to print my maps are indeed with my blessings ![/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]His printouts will be from special high resolution originals where I haven’t used compression in order to preserve the original quality. I wished it would be possible for me to offer these on my site but the bandwidth and hosting costs would be way too high. But thanks to GamePrinter you can soon get the best possible printouts of all my maps.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]Now a comment on copyrights issues.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]WotC haven’t given me permission to make maps of Greyhawk and I haven’t asked them. In fact I don’t need a permission to make my maps and they can’t stop me from making them. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]What they can do is trying to stop me from sharing them with others. They haven’t done it so far and hopefully they will not do that in the future either. I’m not making any profit on them and not hoping to. I do it because I like Greyhawk and making maps and it gives me an opportunity to show off my skills, which have helped me in many other ways. So I get things back (even money) but only indirectly and not from my Greyhawk maps.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]What I do is good for WotC because it creates positive fuzz about role-playing and D&D. What could be bad for them is the fact that if they decided to republish Greyhawk they have to contend with the fact that my maps are out there. They could just ignore me and issue new maps or reprint their old ones. Perhaps my maps are regarded by Greyhawk fans as the best and they needed to buy them or makes better ones themselves (not at all impossible since they have way more resources and talent than I have), then my work would have increased their production costs.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]I often get the comment that my maps are the best Greyhawk maps there are, and it is true. Not because I’m especially talented but the fact that there are not many different Greyhawk maps out there. So if WotC decided to try and stop me from sharing my work it would be another good example that IP is as destructive to creativity and progress as it is beneficial. Which is a hot political debate internationally and in my country and I might need some more political ammunition. So if that happened it wouldn’t be ALL bad :) [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]Thanks again for your interest and comments[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white]Anna[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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