As far as I'm aware of, as long as you OWN the physical copy, you can download digital content, despite the source, as long as you own the physical.
That is the view point on game ROMs. I would surmise it's the same for books.
Despite being a gloomy gus, you make an excellent point. I would recommend /r legaladvice as a fair place to get in touch with actual lawyers about issues like this. A few of them are even the holy combination of copyright lawyer AND gamer.Paging @Mistwell , who is an actual lawyer, and IIRC, has experience in copyright law. I hate threads like this because so many non lawyers give their opinion like it's fact when it's not.
FYI, you can just copy past the SRD spells from on line resources I would think. I guess I never thought about the legality of it though.
That is the view point on game ROMs. I would surmise it's the same for books.
Yes, the SRD doesn't have everything.Not sure, but since SRDs are incomplete and have all the same information (i.e., all SRDs will list the Orb of Dragonkind as their only example of an artifact) I'd reckon that SRDs have a list of acceptable free info from WotC. It can get you pretty far, but every SRD I've seen is missing spells/spell information - even from just the PHB.
Only if you promise not to fast forward through the commercials.Is it legal to videotape broadcast TV?