Final Issue in .pdf? Please

[Saurstalk]

Yeah, I know. Licensing restrictions, but I'd really like a copy of this in .pdf. How long would I have to wait until it fits under your current licensing guidelines. Or perhaps you can go to WotC and say, "Pretty Please."

[Mike McArtor]

Saurstalk wrote:

Yeah, I know. Licensing restrictions, but I'd really like a copy of this in .pdf. How long would I have to wait until it fits under your current licensing guidelines. Or perhaps you can go to WotC and say, "Pretty Please."

Twelve months. That's what our license allows.

[Takamori]

Mike McArtor wrote:

Saurstalk wrote:

Yeah, I know. Licensing restrictions, but I'd really like a copy of this in .pdf. How long would I have to wait until it fits under your current licensing guidelines. Or perhaps you can go to WotC and say, "Pretty Please."

Twelve months. That's what our license allows.

And after the twelve months guideline passes, you can continue selling back copies of Dragon and Dungeon indefinitely?

[Mike McArtor]

Takamori wrote:

And after the twelve months guideline passes, you can continue selling back copies of Dragon and Dungeon indefinitely?

Yes.

[Saurstalk]

The patience must be my virtue.

Does Paizo know yet whether it will transition to 4e in May 2008, or whether it will remain 3.5. (Or rather, I guess technically, will 4e be OGL like 3.5?)

[Gary Teter]

Mike McArtor wrote:

Twelve months. That's what our license allows.

Actually our ability to make PDFs expires soonish. Up until that point, we can make issues that have been off the newstands for 12 months.

So Wizards will have to make the Dragon 359 pdf for you. Sorry.

[Mike McArtor]

Gary Teter wrote:

Actually our ability to make PDFs expires soonish. Up until that point, we can make issues that have been off the newstands for 12 months.

So Wizards will have to make the Dragon 359 pdf for you. Sorry.

OH!

I completely misunderstood our position, then. Alas! :(

[Steven Purcell]

Just to clarify, which will be the last Dragon and Dungeon issues Paizo will be allowed to pdf due to this licence expiration?

[Amaril]

Gary Teter wrote:

Actually our ability to make PDFs expires soonish. Up until that point, we can make issues that have been off the newstands for 12 months.

So Wizards will have to make the Dragon 359 pdf for you. Sorry.

Are you @#$%ing kidding me?! Has Paizo tried to renegotiate the permissions for this? What about the online supplements? I was eagerly looking forward to collecting all of the Eberron articles and adventures in original electronic PDF format. It was frustrating enough to have to wait a year to complete that collection, but now it might not even happen?! @#$%!

[Amaril]

Amaril wrote:

Has Paizo tried to renegotiate the permissions for this?

*bump*

[Mike McArtor]

Amaril wrote:

Has Paizo tried to renegotiate the permissions for this?

There's nothing to renegotiate. We don't have the license anymore.

[Pat Payne]

Gary Teter wrote:

Mike McArtor wrote:

Twelve months. That's what our license allows.

Actually our ability to make PDFs expires soonish. Up until that point, we can make issues that have been off the newstands for 12 months.

So Wizards will have to make the Dragon 359 pdf for you. Sorry.

Two questions that arise from this:

1) Will Paizo still have an unlimited right to sell the pre-existing PDFs of Dungeon and Dragon (as well as whatever WOTC material had been moved over to PDF before the quit doing it) or will all that digital "stock" (so to speak) revert to Wizards to do with as they will?

2) Does this affect old TSR back issues as well, or just the more recent issues (such as #359)?

[Mike McArtor]

Pat Payne wrote:

1) Will Paizo still have an unlimited right to sell the pre-existing PDFs of Dungeon and Dragon (as well as whatever WOTC material had been moved over to PDF before the quit doing it)

Yes.

Pat Payne wrote:

or will all that digital "stock" (so to speak) revert to Wizards to do with as they will?

No.

Pat Payne wrote:

2) Does this affect old TSR back issues as well,

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Pat Payne wrote:

or just the more recent issues (such as #359)?

See previous response.

:)