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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:28:59 04/30/02

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On April 30, 2002 at 17:52:01, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On April 30, 2002 at 16:31:01, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>This isn't a copyright issue, its not even a legal issue in the traditional
>>sense.  It is about the rules for a particular competition, namely the ICCA
>>World Computer Chess Championship.  If the rules say that you can't use someone
>>elses book in the tournament (and its not even clear that they do say this),
>>then you can't use someone elses book regardless of what copyright says.
>
>You have understood the problem, you are not going to fight your own opening
>book in world championship event.
>
>Ed
>

Of course, this begs the _other_ issue.  Do I have to "fight" Jeroen's book
_two_ times in a single tournament?  That hardly seems fair either.  Yet he
does the book for Rebel and Tiger...




>>Of course ICCA can't send you to jail if you break their rules :-)  But they can
>>chuck you out of their tournament.



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