Personally, as long as you advertise it as such, I've got no major qualms with the handouts and pull-outs being photocopies.  I'm sure there are people who'd buy them as playing copies.

For some reason, copies of covers just don't strike me as the same thing though...

Deadlord39 wrote:I was being sarcastic.
Ethically, if you own the bulk of a module/book, I see nothing wrong at all with having photocopies of missing pages. Having 3 pages and photocopying 297 would be a stretch.

That would be a way of stretching out a Ghost Tower or Lost TomMcMan, one page of module to 29 pages of photocopy,

Deadlord39 wrote:I believe banks operate the same way with money; if you have more than half of a torn bill, they can replace it.

FYI,

On a quick side note, you can read more about replacing US currency here:

http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/8/39

I had to go through the process one time.

bonk! wrote:
Several familiar bidders in that auction.  A tantamount endorsement of the sellers practices I guess.

bonk!

I would imagine the seller felt justified in including the Xeroxed material since the majority of the auction consisted of real items and not copies.  However, the "tantamount endorsement" seems a bit harsh IMHO since the familiar bidders would probably not want the Xeroxed copies anyway and would possibly request them not to be included to cut down on shipping costs.  Just my two cents, but some of the "familiar bidders" you mention are some of the best resellers I have dealt with on Ebay.

Reply from her:

Dear oldschooldnd,
 
RPGnow.com is the only place I know where you can purchase TSR products. And this is where I purchased it in 2005.
 
 
- sara_har_81

Reported her.  Does she really think it's legal?

Deadlord39 wrote:Apparently she does:


You are incorrect about TSR line of copyright matrial. When Wizards of the Coast purchased TSR, the copyright patents were never renewed and all TSR products copyright patents expired.

Yahoo! - 404 Not Found
TSR, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

With the copyright patents legaly expired, there is nothing ilegal about selling, purchasing, copying or distributing TSR products

What a moron.

I just went to RPGNow as I wanted to see what rights were given when purchasing a PDF.  

I like the ability to de-activate a device for the DRM copies:

Can I deactivate a device?

Yes, though you must call Adobe Customer Service to do so. They can be reached at: XXX-XXX-XXXX.

The hard part is getting through to Adobe customer service at XXX-XXX-XXXX                         

It made no mention of selling your license.  I suspect there is a clause in there about not reselling it but couldn't find it.

Deadlord39 wrote:Apparently she does:


You are incorrect about TSR line of copyright matrial. When Wizards of the Coast purchased TSR, the copyright patents were never renewed and all TSR products copyright patents expired.

Yahoo! - 404 Not Found
TSR, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

With the copyright patents legaly expired, there is nothing ilegal about selling, purchasing, copying or distributing TSR products

What a moron.

I am no lawyer, but I think she is mistaken about the difference between not using a trademark...such as TSR...and giving up a copyright.

A copyright exists for a given number of years and can be renewed.  I believe the copyright exists for something like 70+ years.

I think she has read the line, "TSR trademarks were allowed to expire" and confused it with, "WOTC was so stupid that they allowed millions upon millions of dollars intellectual properties to go public domain."

I believe she has confused the legal concept of "failing to defend a trademark" with copyright law.

I believe there is a 99.5% chance she is totally wrong.

She e-mailed me that she had removed it, told me to get a life and a hobby. A hobby.