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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1388196" data-attributes="member: 8835">I think Sean and Jolly got a bit off topic with the Kenzerco thing.  Sean did state his opinion on how he'd feel about seeing his stuff reprinted (the gist was he'd be glad if someone wanted his old stuff).Jolly didn't answer that, though some of it was implied by the fact that he did negotiate some sort of first print rights to his stuff.  Since Jolly's stuff is mostly art/comic which ages better (ie. his old stuff is relvant today), his concern might be different than Sean, who's earliest material was likely 2nd Ed. which is OOP.  Perhaps a fair question to Jolly is, would he want a piece of the action if someone were to reprint his old magazine articles, or some such in a big collection CD?Wizardru's got the right point.  People want stuff.  We also don't want to lose stuff.  Most of the stuff in Dragon is the only place it was published.  If we don't scan it and put it on CD, we risk losing it.  For 30 years worth of material, charged at $50 a CD, we can't afford to pay every guy for reprint costs.  Nor can we afford to lose this material.  True, not all of it is valuable, but often, we don't know until later, the value of something.This is old stuff.  The artists and writers aren't being hurt.  They may be denied more profits, but no one's taking money from them.  Paying them, would likely make these archive CDs impossible to release.  That's the real waste.  The fact of the matter is, yes, Jolly's strips are reprinted in the Dragon Archive CD.  I didn't buy it for his cartoons.  Heck, I have the originals, as well as his reprint books.  So he hasn't lost any money.  And somebody who buys the Dragon CD just to get the KoDT strips and not buy from Jolly, isn't going to give Jolly their money anyway.Janx</blockquote>

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