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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 326840" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p><span style="color: aliceblue">I used to work at an ILL/Document Delivery service, so while I'm no legal expert, at least I have some experience with this question and how we dealt with it.</span></p><p><span style="color: aliceblue"></span></p><p><span style="color: aliceblue">Printing multiple copies of the PDF is <em>not</em> illegal. Printing more copies than you need and giving them to everyone you know is certainly unethical, though. It is true that even without copyright notice, all work is considered copyrighted automatically. However, you are perfectly within your legal rights as a buyer of the PDF to print off as many copies as you need for your own use. You have the same rights relative to print material you buy, by the way, although copying an entire book is certainly a daunting and, IMO, silly task anyway.</span></p><p><span style="color: aliceblue"></span></p><p><span style="color: aliceblue">But, I'd still encourage your players to pick up the PDF themselves. PDFs are ridiculously cheap. In addition, I'd only print out the exact pages they will need, not the entire document. Do a little sales job of your own!</span></p><p><span style="color: aliceblue"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 326840, member: 2205"] [color=aliceblue]I used to work at an ILL/Document Delivery service, so while I'm no legal expert, at least I have some experience with this question and how we dealt with it. Printing multiple copies of the PDF is [i]not[/i] illegal. Printing more copies than you need and giving them to everyone you know is certainly unethical, though. It is true that even without copyright notice, all work is considered copyrighted automatically. However, you are perfectly within your legal rights as a buyer of the PDF to print off as many copies as you need for your own use. You have the same rights relative to print material you buy, by the way, although copying an entire book is certainly a daunting and, IMO, silly task anyway. But, I'd still encourage your players to pick up the PDF themselves. PDFs are ridiculously cheap. In addition, I'd only print out the exact pages they will need, not the entire document. Do a little sales job of your own! [/color] [/QUOTE]
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