Re: Cluebook Conundrum

erimess wrote:
On Sat, 13 May 2006 06:03:56 -0700, thehawk
<thehawk5150at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

erimess wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2006 23:48:51 -0700, thehawk
<thehawk5150at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thoughts?
Just one. Copyright?
*nods* I have thought about that. But I am also not making them available to the general public. Just 'passing it around' among a few friends who request to 'see' it, I am not making money off of it, and I am not taking any money at all away from the copyright holder by doing so.

I know, not really the way the laws are written and enforced, but I do believe I am following the -spirit- of the laws with my stance.

Even still, if I am told to stop, of course I will. But I would hate for these works to disappear from the face of the earth, which is my real motivation for doing it in the first place.

Well, legally the copyright counts. I was more wondering *who* put
out these cluebooks, or if they're original stuff from the games that
are no longer available just like everything else. I don't have any
issues downloading & using the manuals and maps people have scanned,
cause EA couldn't be bothered to give them to me when I bought their
collection, despite that they originally came with this stuff. The
"manual" they included is almost useless. (Actually, I think some of
it's on the CD somewhere.)

I am just talking about the actual cluebooks, not the Prima guides. They were all originally put out by Origin as well. 'Balancing the Scales' and 'Pentology' were both put out by Origin after being bought by EA (at least, those are the only ones that have the EA name on them).

Except for 'Keys to the Black Gate' and 'Balancing the Scales', I have not seen any of the others for anything approaching reasonable prices. Altho now that I just looked to check numbers, there are nowhere near as many of either of those now as there were ten months ago.

I do have to say tho, that while looking these up, there are several Martian Dreams for sale on Amazon, and a few Savage Empires. If you are considering, make sure you get ones that have color maps listed- not all versions of MD came with them.

-thehawk
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