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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 815363" data-attributes="member: 813">Your father is right. Listen to him.This hurts you how? Have you never borrowed a friends copy of a book you did not own and use the ideas therein? Afterward did you run out and buy the book because you owed it to the copyright owner? Of course you didn't. Don't sweat John Doe giving a copy to his play group. That's 12 more people who might buy your next product without John Doe copying it for them.Of course, you can look at old posts of mine and discover I expect people to share my work with their DMs/players since if they don't, my works are worthless. "Hey guys I want to use this cool spell but you have to go buy your own copy of the PDF since I'm not allowed to copy it." Get real.Wide open. Some people include RTF files of the OGC text in a separate file along with the PDF.You forget that the easiest way to "steal" your PDF is to copy it verbatim. This form of copying keeps you copyright notice intact. It tells the receiver that you own the work. And in the case of people who download illegal copies of copyrighted works it does not stop them at all. Thus, why should you worry about making it hard to copy part of the work when copying the whole work is easy.The format is a theme? a person? which thing is the format that is listed in the definition of PI that allows you to PI it? If I read that the format of the book was PId I'd laugh my head off. Why would you care that someone is reusing your formatting? All that means is that their works will remind others of yours.Putting watermarks and heavy graphical borders will only annoy people who don't want to use up a whole printer cartridge printing your book. By detering the honest people from printing your book, you make your book less useful. You make it less likely that potential new customers will see your works and you make it less likely that your material will be used at all. Isn't the whole point of writing this stuff to get people to use your stuff? You can't be doing this for the money.If you are really so paranoid about casual users copying your work, perhaps PDF format is not for you. Only release print products.Everything I release is 100% OGC. The only PI in most of it is my company name and the name of the product. Both of these things are printed (at 9pt) on the bottom of alternating pages. What more do you really need?</blockquote>

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