Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 03:15:05 04/08/02
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On April 07, 2002 at 21:30:39, alfred palang wrote: >But please don't include whatever annotations they have in there. If it is not >annotated, it shouldn't have any problems with copyright issues since anyone can >find those games from other sources. This is not the first time an extensive debate goes on about this. I'm no lawyer, and I'm not familiar with copyright laws. I simply define it coming in to action when creative work done by someone is used basically unmodified by others. You could argue that the work of collecting the games and sifting them could belong under copyright law. In that case I think about: - selecting the games - checking if the spelling of the names is consistent, if the Elo-rating is right, if the country information is okay; - checking if tournament names, dates and places are right and consistent; - checking if tournaments are complete (gamewise) and if not, append the game or gamescore and players to the database (the 0-move games you'll find in it - eventual annotations (especially in the Mega Database) I know that CB does this, as it says in the text file: <quote> The authors The database was compiled and edited by Lubomir Ftacnik and Rainer Knaak. Word of thanks A lot of people have taken part in the collecting and improving the games, so we can not possibly list all of them. Despite that some deserve to be presented in the name of honour: Ivo Fasiori Wilfried Grönegress Hans Maurer Detlef Neukirch Wybe Koopmans Dieter Pleis Werner Ries Thomas Rondio Ulrich Tamm </quote> Let me say this: if I did all this work, and it took me weeks or months to do it, and if it was my paid job, I would be pleased if the database collection would fall under copyright protection. But again, I have no legal insights that could backup my vison. J.
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