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03-24-2014 02:35 PM |
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Originally Posted by liugeaux
(Post 1233106)
To print it for personal use is legal, printing and selling it for a profit is definitely not legal. But printing something that was initially free, to make it available to more people and not turning a profit is more of a grey area.
In the end, it really depends on the copyright holder's stance on the issue.
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Unless you get consent for redistribution, it's not legal. Lotsa marketing implications and such, regardless if there's profits or not. PL or Viacom would have to OK this, I'm thinking Viacom much more so than PL. I don't see Viacom/IDW being cool with fan based/funded publishing if they were asked about it... But that's just me...
Also, and I hope it doesn't go here, there could be implications tying PL to this based on timeframes and similarity. Not to say it would happen, but I would almost say with 100% certainty that PL would stop in his tracks if Viacom/IDW started asking if he had anything to do with an increase in copyright infringing, non-consent having re-distribution of a Viacom/IDW owned property.
Yes #31 would come after the fact and makes it an uber-grey area, but many lawyers on retainer have the sole responsibility of finding ways to successfully sue people. I feel I've pointed out some rather obvious reasons to file suit and I'm the furthest thing from an Esquire.
Nothing more than food for thought... Always CYA!
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