Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:44:15 02/18/99
Go up one level in this thread
On February 18, 1999 at 18:22:32, James B. Shearer wrote: >On February 18, 1999 at 14:51:53, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On February 18, 1999 at 14:31:47, James B. Shearer wrote: >>[snip] >>>And if the ICCA decides otherwise then people have the right to enter >>>Crafty variants. >>I think Dr. Hyatt would have something to say about it, since he owns the >>copyright to Crafty. > > Dr. Hyatt has waived some of his rights under copyright law. Once you >waive your rights you don't have them anymore. It is unclear to me that Dr. >Hyatt ever had any rights (under copyright law) to determine whether his program >(once published) could be entered in tournaments. > Dan Corbit continued: >>I would be very surprised if the ICCA asked for clone participation. I doubt >>very much if the legitimate entries would be pleased at the notion of copycat >>programs. > > If ICCA allows clone entries then clone entries are legitimate. > James B. Shearer I think he has no more right than does the author of any commercial program. As I have said elsewhere recently, basement-tournaments are not what I am talking about. I was talking about author-entry tournaments. I would hope that any well-run tournament of this type would take pains to assure that entries are entered by their authors or their representatives, and not by random people. There should be as much chance of some random person entering Crafty in one of these as there is that some random person would walk in with Fritz and claim that he wrote it. The ICCA tournaments have always been author-entry tournaments, where multiple entries by the same author are not allowed, nor is someone allowed to enter a program they didn't write. You can't buy Fritz and enter it in an ICCA tournament yourself. bruce
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.