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The problem with that example is, Peter Jackson was contractually obligated to declare the origin of the work, because it's still under copyright, and he was required to license it to make his movies.

Right now, under our current copyright law, there's no requirement (which I explained earlier as "right of paternity") to credit original sources - all of that is contractual between copyright holders and licensees.

But public domain works? There's no contract there. The whole work is freely available for anyone to do with as they please, including simply re-printing and slapping one's own name on the work, as if they were the original author.

This is just yet another example of how copyright law isn't about protecting the individual author's interest. Plagiarism itself is (although unethical) completely legal, because we don't have that right of paternity protection.

As much as I support the public domain, and am appalled by the political abuse of it in the form of current copyright terms, I do believe that, at least in this very limited area, there needs to be this small form of protection. Nothing that inhibits or discourages use, but a simple credit to the original author/creator.

Ask your elected officials why that's not part of the next copyright extension they sell their corporate benefactors.

Ah ok, thanks for the explanation.

Well yeah, there should be a way to keep this from happening. I'm writing my congressperson

Take Tolkien. He's dead, the rights live on in his estate. Peter Jackson had to go through all sorts of work to be able to adapt it. As well he should have, its important that the core Middle-Earth creator be identified as Tolkien (who also liberally talks about his own influences)

Peter Jackson didn't make a trilogy of movies and say "I made all this up" Even when a director straight out copies ONE scene from another work, they always straight out say it was a homage to whoever made it up.

So there is a system to protect creativity, but she blatantly tried to weasel around it. Not even that, she just ignored it because she's too lazy and uncreative to weasel.

I bought something here, but it was non-paizo and in print. I fail :(

Meh, I wouldn't have bought it if all this hype had got me browsing around here :)

Barnes & Noble has access to most of our products, too!

My Hastings (bookstore chain, I think only in WA) doesn't sell Paizo...but the one 20 mins away stocks a lot

35% off AND I have all month to use it? Going from being completely disenfranchised with the industry to being proud of it within a few hours is too stressful. I need a new hobby :)

I'll be here on payday!

I suspect you guys are making quite a buck right now with people gobbling up pdfs while they can. Congrats! So something good came out of this :)

Wow, I'm glad I dumped WoTC long ago and went with paizo/pathfinder. I don't have to worry about how they are going to shaft me yet again.

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Pc has 2 Gig Ram...Running XP with a Duel Core AMD X2 5600 Proccessor... 2 8800 GTS Video cards.... Like i said..should be smove on the PDF... but laggy as hell

Are you using Adobe Reader 8? It's way faster than older versions.

I found Foxit reader to run much smoother. I think Acrobat is just bloated.

Also, Adobe checks for updates all the time. Try switching that off. Just an idea.