Permission to have PDFs printed

[Brian McDaniel]

I would like to have several of the PDF maps for Savage Tide printed at a battle-map scale by Gamer Printshop (http://www.gamer-printshop.com/), a commercial print shop that specializes in jobs for gamers.

They respect the rights of copyright holders and will only print copyrighted materials if they have permission from the copyright holders.

Accordingly, I am asking someone from the Dungeon staff to grant permission for Gamer Printshop to print certain maps for me, subject to the following conditions. The maps would be for my own personal use, not for resale or distribution, and limited to one printing of each map from the electronic supplement to Dungeon issues 139 to 150. As part of this permission, I represent that I am a current subscriber to Dungeon and that I currently own (or will own) copies of the relevant Dungeon magazines.

If you could respond in this thread, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Brian McDaniel

[Vic Wertz]

Brian McDaniel wrote:

They respect the rights of copyright holders and will only print copyrighted materials if they have permission from the copyright holders.

Accordingly, I am asking someone from the Dungeon staff to grant permission...

Wizards of the Coast are the copyright holders, and we can't grant permission on their behalf, I'm afraid.

[Rezdave]

Brian McDaniel wrote:

They respect the rights of copyright holders and will only print copyrighted materials if they have permission from the copyright holders.

Double-check the PDF files. Some might include a line allowing them to be printed for personal use. I know I have several sheets of old monster-tokens that had this expressly printed on the sheet.

Actually, I just checked Online Suppliment #143 which expressly states, "Dungeon #143 Map & Handout Supplement © 2007 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Permission to photocopy for personal use only. All rights reserved."

Given that you might convince them that since a photocopier is capable of doing blow-ups, that they are acting within you legal fair-use rights to function as "photocopier-operators" and print one blown-up copy for you.

HTH,

Rez

[chopswil]

So let me get this strait, I can print out a map on my own printer but I can't hire someone to print it out for me?

[Sean, Minister of KtSP]

chopswil wrote:

So let me get this strait, I can print out a map on my own printer but I can't hire someone to print it out for me?

If you print it out yourself, you are receiving no monetary gain. If you hire someone else to do it, they are.

[chopswil]

Sean, Minister of KtSP wrote:

chopswil wrote:

So let me get this strait, I can print out a map on my own printer but I can't hire someone to print it out for me?

If you print it out yourself, you are receiving no monetary gain. If you hire someone else to do it, they are.

so if I print it out but they laminated it...

I'm not paying for the map just additional services

[rward30]

Actually, they are allowed to do it. Having worked in a copy shop for several years (and being a manager for 2 of those) I had to stay up on copyright. As long as it has the line on the hard copy original stating personal use is ok, and it is for your personal use there is no problem. I have seen some shops take the hardline approach, stating that THEY cannot make the copies, but most will not have a problem with it. The big thing is that the personal use exemption needs to be available for them to see.

[gamer-printer]

Technically the printshop is doing a service - printing your PDF, they are not getting monetary gain for the publication, but for the service of print-on-demand.