2ed Monstrous Manual Pics
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Piratecat
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Tonguez, in the last 2,272 posts have you somehow missed the fact that copyrighted and non-OGL material shouldn't be linked from here? Even if it's out of print, having a monster manual online is stealing. I've deleted your link.
I know you were just trying to be helpful, which is great, but please keep legality in mind next time. Thanks!
I know you were just trying to be helpful, which is great, but please keep legality in mind next time. Thanks!
shadowlight
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I just checked the book out of my library and scanned in the picts myself... legal? I don't really know...
Altamont Ravenard
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shadowlight said:
AS long as you don't post them or use them to make money, I don't think it's illegal. Even if it was, how the hell are they going to know?
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Marius Delphus
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shadowlight said:
It actually is not legal. Unless you *own* a copy of the work in question, you technically have no right (I frankly don't think "fair use" covers the use implicated here) to make so much as a single "personal backup" copy of anything in it. If you *do* own a copy of the work (buying an ESD counts), that is *all* you have the right to make (*one* "personal backup" copy). You do *not* have the right to distribute, in any way, form, or fashion, such a copy -- UNLESS the copyright holder gives such permission (which is why there are "OK to photocopy for home game use" or similar disclaimers on certain pages of game books).
Of course it's possible to get away with a lot of things that are technically copyright violations. But please understand that in copyright, just as in automobile traffic, "getting away with it" doesn't mean "legal." Most of the countries we are posting from (AFAIK) have copyright laws in place that approximate the ones summarized below (those of the US):
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/faq/
(and Canada):
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/help/faq_cp-e.html
Note I am not a lawyer, though I have tried to familiarize myself with this stuff.
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shadowlight
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Marius Delphus said:
Ooops!
Oh well. I did the scanning before 3e came out and since then, I like the 3e monster art so much (for the most part, but especially Sam Wood) that I haven't really used the scans.
Pants
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Actually, I own the old 2ed Monstrous Manual, but I just needed the pics on my computer. I was actually planning on doing a side by side comparison of the old art compared to the new art (1st compared to 2nd compared to 3rd and sometimes 3.5). I thought it might be fun, but I had no way of getting the pics onto my computer.
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