Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:59:51 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 23:38:18, Slater Wold wrote: >Like I said earlier, a single line, a single move, none of that can be >copyrighted. > >And you cannot copyright a "collection" of games. For example, say someone >published a book (actual paperback book) with 300 Fischer games (no comments, >nothing. Just the games.) and was selling this book for $50. And then someone >else came along and published a book with the same exact 300 games, (in a >different cover and style) for $25. There is *NOTHING* that first person can >do. The Fischer games do NOT belong to him. > >How many versions of dictionaries do we have out there? They are all the same >thing, they all have the same words and definitions in them. ;) > >However, what that person could do, is insert varations, comments, etc., which >are his ideas. You CAN copyright your own ideas. You cannot copyright someone >elses games, or their "collection" of games though. > I think you're right on here, and I don't think that chess moves, in a "collection" or otherwise are candidates for protection under copyright laws. I find it very hard to believe that Jeroen or anyone else creating an opening book is injecting 100% original lines that have never been played on a chess board before. An opening book doesn't have comments, and if it did only those comments would be able to be copyrighted. The moves themselves in any form cannot be copyrighted. Russell
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