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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rom90125" data-source="post: 2143010" data-attributes="member: 17111">I'm not sure which forum this should be in, thus I decided to drop the question here and will let the moderators decide if it needs to be moved.My group is expected to begin CoTSQ adventure path in the very near future.  As such, I decided to transcribe the adventure book to rich text so I could import the adventure into a 3rd party RPG software suite.  With the add of OCR software, I've completed half the book to date and suspect I will finish the second half in the next few weeks.I've seen other copyright material transcribed and posted in the yahoo forums that support this RPG software suite and I was wondering if this is legal?For example, if I take the rtf files and move them into the software suite and save as a file specific to the software suite, can I then distribute this application-specific file to other users of the software, provided I password-protect my work?  It seems to be a common practice to transcribe copyright material and share it in the yahoo forums, in so long as the person downloading the work can authenticate they own the copyright material (usually with a keyword taken from the source material and used as a password to unlock the transcribed material).</blockquote>