Unfortunately, while your intentions might be pure, posting scans of all the pages will quickly lead to counterfeits appearing on eBay.  This would be relatively easy to accomplish, since the non-foldered versions are not technically complex in the first place (from a printing standpoint).

Aside from any of that, it's also illegal.

Please do not post complete scans, or links to complete scans / pdf files, here.

Foul

Or you could wait till the copyright has lapsed (ie 70 years past the authors death).  

improvstone wrote:Or you could wait till the copyright has lapsed (ie 70 years past the authors death).

Are the authors of it still alive?



A number of years ago, a local game shop was selling bad photocopies of it for 10 bucks.

Well, we have been down this road several times before as one only needs to look at the last sticky thread "Report Sellers Who Commit Copyright Infringement".   For those of you here taht are interested, here is a link to the enitre US Copyright Law, but Improv was really not that far off:



http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscod ... 01_17.html



And more specifically the duration of the copyright, which depends on when the work was produced:



http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscod ... _10_3.html



The laws for works produced after January 1, 1978:



(a) In General.— Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author's death.



In this circumstance this does not apply beacuse PotVQ was produce in 1976. The law that regualtes works prior to January 1,1978 is here:



(a) Copyright in a work created before January 1, 1978, but not theretofore in the public domain or copyrighted, subsists from January 1, 1978, and endures for the term provided by section 302. In no case, however, shall the term of copyright in such a work expire before December 31, 2002; and, if the work is published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright shall not expire before December 31, 2047



Now there is more specifics on the US Copright Law site, then what I copied here, but for the most part that is the general laws. Additonally, in a lot of circumsatances the author(s) of the material may choose to request an extention to their copyright. Finally, afaik, at least one of the original creators of PotVQ are still alive as Mike(I/O) was corresponding with him back in February.

killjoy32 wrote:hear hear foul.



if you wanna run it chummer, go get one like we had to



and besides, i aint fecking taking mine out the wrapping again, not a chance !



Al

I couldn't justify a couple grand just to run a module…could I?  LOL; I could barely even keep a straight face writing that…of course I could!  I'd just chalk it up to an investment, even if I wasn't a collector.  Yeah, D&D means that much to me, as pathetic as that fact may be.

FoulFoot wrote:Unfortunately, while your intentions might be pure, posting scans of all the pages will quickly lead to counterfeits appearing on eBay. This would be relatively easy to accomplish, since the non-foldered versions are not technically complex in the first place (from a printing standpoint).



Aside from any of that, it's also illegal.



Please do not post complete scans, or links to complete scans / pdf files, here.



Foul

Of course you're right FoulFoot; my apologies to the Acaeum.  I wouldn't want to be the instigator of a flood of fraudulent PoVQs on eBay…the horror!   I had been perusing the scans of select pages already posted in this thread purely as an interested collector but my mind turned to the possibility of acquiring the rest of the pages just to run the module (because my most recent use of L3 turned to disaster).  I thought that those pages might already be on the site somewhere or, perhaps, on another site known to Acaeum members.  So what's the difference in legality of posting a couple pages as opposed to the whole module?  Is it only copyright infringement if you make a buck off of it?  Could I legally make the text and a redrawn map (all not in the original format so as to avoid counterfeits) available to others for free for their own personal use?  I'm willing to research the answer to those questions, but your feedback is welcome.

improvstone wrote:Of course one should never take 'tounge in cheek' comments as serious

Of course.



Someone get a hold of the "Wee Warriors" crew, tell them to dust off this relic, print up a couple thousand copies at a reasonable price and watch them fly off the shelves.  ("Don't miss your chance to own the first RPG module ever published!")  Maybe print an anniversary edition, a la the Liberation of Geoff, with the original version and a revamped version so I can legally pay for a playable copy.  Wait a second, if that means it'll be a D20 version, then just forget the whole idea.  I'd take a Hackmaster copy, though.

So, has anyone tried contacting the author(s) and getting this thing into a PDF for sale over the Internet?

$100 for a 4th/5th is pretty optimistic. I'd jump on that in a heartbeat. I think $200 is more realistic.

harami2000 wrote:The <toymom> copy had worn covers and dissembled, used and stained maps.

Went for $218.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5200186581



(Must admit DeLaina's idea to hold back the oB3 in order to create interest in the other lots paid serious dividends; as did her willingness to scan every page in a book, if required, copyright not withstanding... *gentle nudge to DnDGeek*)

yeah i think a decent copy would go for $200 at the least. i think there are quite a few ppl on the lookout for them imo



Al

Good move Clarkie. I just sent a bunch of starter questions.