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Post by tarabull on Sept 1, 2013 23:47:04 GMT
The morality of pirating intellectual property.
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Post by ceraton on Sept 1, 2013 23:58:30 GMT
Who's property?
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Post by tarabull on Sept 2, 2013 1:03:32 GMT
Copyright holders'.
Yay topical discussions! New Zealand just nixed copyright/patenting of software codes (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/), plus the hubbub around patent trolling in the states is intriguing. All very much related. Not quite the same though, I'd argue.
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Post by hunterkiller725 on Sept 2, 2013 1:15:10 GMT
im of the opinion if i can legally get an item for free i can pirate it without issue(granted i pirate alot of things)
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Post by tarabull on Sept 2, 2013 2:29:39 GMT
Obtaining something legally is different from pirating it, as my understanding goes. If we're referring to OGL material the particulars of the license mean some game material can be used in other products. If a someone wants to distribute those other products they've created using the OGL for free, that's fine. That's how the pfsrd operates. They take rules they have license to use through the OGL and repackage them into a product they offer for free (well, it's paid for by advertising views and sales from their store, there was a big issue as they were operating under a different license until recently . . . long story).
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Post by hunterkiller725 on Sept 2, 2013 2:39:53 GMT
ive linked the location in the other thread of where they are allowing "pay what you want" service i have paid for a copy if i were to link it(the PDF not the site) then i dont see a problem with that as its no different than showing my friend the book
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Post by tarabull on Sept 2, 2013 3:22:26 GMT
It is legally different. Though, yes, I don't see the harm any longer (hadn't realized it was pay what you want anywhere, it was still .99 on the sites I frequent).
Linking to the site where one can download it as a pay what you want is the best bet. Good call.
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Post by ceraton on Sept 2, 2013 14:36:30 GMT
"The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.” Copyright protects the particular way authors have expressed themselves. It does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in a work." - quoted from www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
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