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Post Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 12:23 pm 
 

RPG Geek also did this once, when they were first starting out offering points or credits if you uploaded images to their site.  Some numbnuts basically took all the scans he could find from Ebay and put them up, I know this because most of the Dungeon magazine scans were mine (yes you can tell if you know what to look for, as Mars said)  Wasn't worth my time to bitch about, and at least they werent claiming ownership like RPG net was at that time. If I take an image from The Acaeum (I have never done so from ToT to my knowledge), I always attribute.  

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Post Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:03 pm 
 

Troll and Toad was also terrible for gathering images from various sources then stating in all of their auctions that they owned the rights to the photos so no one else could use them, ...

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Post Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:41 am 
 

Thanks for the info, Mark and Mike.  I didn't recall these details, and it is clearly very disappointing.  

Has anyone reached out to Fred Hicks (president of Evil Hat) to insure that the new print editions do not abuse the rights of the folks here and at ToT who worked so hard to provide scans of books from their own collections?


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:50 am 
 

Noble Knight Games also uses a number of public domain scans of covers and uses them for their ebay listings. I don't mind that so much, but then they have the nerve to put their logo at the bottom of each of them like they own them and don't want others to use them.

As a side note I also find it the height of laziness that they use stock scans for selling used items. I want to see what i am actually buying, not just rely on their "grading system" for what condition the item is in.


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