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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1393843" data-attributes="member: 8835">actually, life is really that simple as scanning and burning a cd.  It's all the middlemen that make it complicated.Using Jolly as a scapegoat example (only because he's well known, has material in Dragon magazine, and probably wants to get paid if its reprinted, ie. no insult intended):WoTC had no problem making the Dragon Archive CD.  Piece of cake.  Lots of hours scanning, and putting into PDFs.  Then they burn a CD and ship it.The problem comes in because everybody wants a piece of the profits.  Technically, Jolly contributed something (KoDT), but compared to the initial profits from the print release ($5 mag X # sales X 250 - expenses), the CD will never be that profitable ($50 CD X # sales - expenses).  Assuming every contributor was in a database, and I could calculate their 'cut' its just not that much money.  Yet these contributors would stand in the way of releasing the CD anyway.  Brom, Larry Smith and all those others got their art books and calendars, regardless of whether the CD was released.  It really didn't affect them or Jolly, except for their "desire to limit release" and "get a piece of the action"  Now I'm not saying any of these guys mentioned made a big stink about it, but that's appearance thats put on by authors wanting to limit rights to "one printing only" type deals.  Why not simply accept it as "I sold WotC a copy, and after a certain time, I sell somebody else a copy, and if WotC reuses their copy, so long as my work is intact and attributed, great!"Maybe its also a matter of scale.  A reprint CD is pretty boring and has minimal profit margins for any single contributor.  Versus reprinting/republishing a specific product at "normal" price and achieving sales similar to the first time.  Given a choice, contributors should be pursuing protection for the latter, whereas the former is not worth their time.Janx</blockquote>

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