pleveich wrote:Thanks Paul! It arrived safely and is being framed for display in my library this evening. I was delighted to win this so cheaply. It is a great addition to the collection. My wife is a little miffed that I paid that amount for some that is only 12 x 9 though. I tried to explain the historical and collector value of the piece and the signatures, but she does not get it. Oh well, I love her anyway!!!John ** expired/removed eBay auction **
darkseraphim wrote:I just always point out that, for example, I had to pay $81 for it because someone else was convinced it was worth $80. In other words the item could be immediately resold for your money back, if not a small profit.Note - this point is best made as you're going out the door, so that her question of "So why don't you sell it?" bounces harmlessly away.
FormCritic wrote:The item in question is easily worth $80 and is likely to get more valuable in the future. Frame that baby!
FormCritic wrote:Only problem with the sale of such manuscripts as the Dungeon Hobby Shop Dungeon.....Now a famous piece of RPG work is available for only one person to enjoy. Auctions are quicker, but a pdf of the original might net the same amount of money for the game legend in question. IF the pdfs were available at a reachable price, I know I'd be buying them.Mark
zhowar wrote:Well, I believe the copyright stays with the original owner. Ernie retains the copyright to the actual words written in the adventure. I believe this was listed in the auction. The buyer of the auction owns only the physical item, and not the copyright on the words. Ernie would have to give permission to publish this as an adventure, or to sell copies of the pdf.
mbassoc2003 wrote:It wouldn't be copyright infringement if the seller were the copyright holder. Besides, is it not the same as Bottle City going to print after Mike spent $3600 of the original map and notes? I would consider it fair game for a seller to sell PDFs having already sold the original, just as I wasn't pissed when a second photocopy of City of the Revenant was put up for sale six months after I paid $600 for my copy. It is the seller's IP to do with as he sees fit, and I'm sure Paul would honour any request for refund if the buyer were unhappy with future developements, as would the IP owner.
FormCritic wrote:TSR used to purchase first publishing rights to artwork...like for the cover of Dragon, for instance.At least that was their policy in the golden age. Also, I would suppose that the work of staff artists would also belong to TSR.
Deadlord39 wrote:I'm not sure I see the value in buying a "unique" item, then. If a cheap PDF can be knocked off at the whim of the original writer, does it not devaluate the "unique"? I'd compare it to the OB3/PDF issue, but OB3 is not unique, so the devaluation is minimal at best.
red_bus wrote:I suppose it probably also depends on what the item is - for example, a photocopy of a piece which stays in the hands of the creator would be devalued if a finished printed version comes out. If on the other hand, the manuscript was different from the finished version (perhaps revealing some of the author's thinking) that would keep a lot of its value.