Author: Amir Ban
Date: 01:17:38 06/16/98
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On June 15, 1998 at 12:33:06, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On June 15, 1998 at 08:18:06, Kim Hvarre wrote: >>In the future - I think - SSDF will have do buy e.g. Rebel, if they >>wants to incklude it on the list, but let's see! (I hope they settle >>with that solution, then nobody can "withdraw" from the list! >> >>kim > >The discussion was held in paderborn. >Is rebel ED's or are the ssdf-allowed to publish results about ed's baby if he >does not want. >It could e.g. be that ed can stop publishing the list in magazines IF his rebel >is still in the list although he forbid it. Thats the question. >Lawyers will find out. I guess the customer can do what he wants, as long as he >is not doing it in public. Ed has no legal means to stop the SSDF from including Rebel in their list. Ed has a copyright and trademark on Rebel, that's all. A copyright means that only he can make copies, but publishing match results doesn't infringe on that. A trademark means that no one can use the name "Rebel" in a competing or related product, but if you publish something where you use the name "Rebel" to mean "Ed's program" you are not disputing the trademark but agreeing with it. Here's an analogy: Can GM stop auto magazines from doing comparative reviews of Oldsmobile ? No. Can they keep Oldsmobile out of used-car pricelists ? No. Ed can perhaps change his license agreement for Rebel, but he cannot discriminate against the SSDF. He will have to make everybody sign to keep all Rebel results private. In any case, I believe Ed has already dropped this issue. >In the moment it comes into the public, the rights come back to ed. >I would not be allowed to participate a chess-championship with using rebel ? >Only ed should be allowed to do so. I am only licensed to USE it for my own, not >for competitions in public. This is a good question. I see no reason why you can't play a Rebel you bought in a public competition, if there's nothing in the license agreement to forbid it, so long as you don't pretend to be the author. Actually this happens all the time on the Internet. Amir
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