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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5618032" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>The thing that boggles my mind about this, is that:</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Orange"><strong>A</strong></span>- There was no lawyer's letter or a cease and desist, DMCA takedown Notice or other formal warning shot across the bow. This was just a private e-mail; and</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Orange"><strong>B</strong></span>- There was no request that the GM stop scanning the images, nor was there a request that he not send or share those scanned images to his players for use in his personal game, either.</p><p></p><p>No, the request was a lot simpler (and a lot less mean-spirited) than that: <span style="color: Orange"><strong>if you are going to scan our art and distribute it to your players, do so in a manner so that only your players can access those images and not the entire internet, writ large.</strong></span></p><p></p><p>What the hell is unreasonable about that request? It did not impact upon the GM's campaign, reduce the utility of the cards in question or otherwise interfere in the enjoyment of the game or the game product. <span style="color: Orange"><em><strong>Win-Win.</strong></em></span></p><p></p><p>Seriously: what's the problem with this? Paizo politely asks via private e-mail that if you are going to copy our images for distribution, do so only for the gamers at your table. </p><p></p><p>They don't even have to allow THAT, but they did (and they have on many other occasion too when the matter has arisen in relation to sharing maps). </p><p></p><p>Seem to me this is a request that falls far short of the legal remedies available to Paizo and appears, to this lawyers view, to be a very reasonable balance between the commercial interests of Paizo and the interests of its customers.</p><p></p><p>Looks fair to me; in fact, so fair that I would have thought this to be self-evident to everyone. But dozens and dozens of posts later, the jury is still out? WTF?</p><p></p><p>Wow. Just ... <span style="color: Orange"><strong>wow</strong></span>.</p><p></p><p>It occurs to me that the subtext of these reports that Lisa Stevens has somehow morphed into <em>The Wicked Witch of the Northwest</em> are more than just a little over-the-top. </p><p></p><p>*sigh*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5618032, member: 20741"] The thing that boggles my mind about this, is that: [COLOR=Orange][B]A[/B][/COLOR]- There was no lawyer's letter or a cease and desist, DMCA takedown Notice or other formal warning shot across the bow. This was just a private e-mail; and [COLOR=Orange][B]B[/B][/COLOR]- There was no request that the GM stop scanning the images, nor was there a request that he not send or share those scanned images to his players for use in his personal game, either. No, the request was a lot simpler (and a lot less mean-spirited) than that: [COLOR=Orange][B]if you are going to scan our art and distribute it to your players, do so in a manner so that only your players can access those images and not the entire internet, writ large.[/B][/COLOR] What the hell is unreasonable about that request? It did not impact upon the GM's campaign, reduce the utility of the cards in question or otherwise interfere in the enjoyment of the game or the game product. [COLOR=Orange][I][B]Win-Win.[/B][/I][/COLOR] Seriously: what's the problem with this? Paizo politely asks via private e-mail that if you are going to copy our images for distribution, do so only for the gamers at your table. They don't even have to allow THAT, but they did (and they have on many other occasion too when the matter has arisen in relation to sharing maps). Seem to me this is a request that falls far short of the legal remedies available to Paizo and appears, to this lawyers view, to be a very reasonable balance between the commercial interests of Paizo and the interests of its customers. Looks fair to me; in fact, so fair that I would have thought this to be self-evident to everyone. But dozens and dozens of posts later, the jury is still out? WTF? Wow. Just ... [COLOR=Orange][B]wow[/B][/COLOR]. It occurs to me that the subtext of these reports that Lisa Stevens has somehow morphed into [I]The Wicked Witch of the Northwest[/I] are more than just a little over-the-top. *sigh* [/QUOTE]
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