RE: TSR Internet Policy (was Re: [Open_Gaming] A D20STL caution)

[Brad Thompson]

> Eric Christian Berg
>
> If the DJ is selling this service, I can see it being illegal, but if I
> take a bunch of CDs I bought, mix them and cut them up and play them for
> people who come over to my house, I don't think they could make a case.

You can do just about anything you want so long as you don't Distribute
them.

> Extrapolating further, putting it
> up on the web is just using a different communication medium that reaches
> more people, but without a commercial aspect, I'm hard-pressed to see
> the difference, in principle, with making up house rules and telling your
> players and other DMs.

The difference, in fact, is that commercial intent is irrelevant.  What you
are describing is Distribution as that term is defined under copyright law.
You can't legally Distribute material copyrighted by another without their
permission.

-Brad

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