Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:05:59 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 16:16:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >While you cannot copyright chess moves, you can copyright a particular >collection as a whole. (For example, a book of analysis about Bobby Fischer's >chess games can be copyrighted). That is true, but this has absolutely no bearing on the situation at hand. The situation at hand would be analagous to someone attempting to copyright ONLY the chess moves that make up the collection of games, which no one can lay claim to. As Slater pointed out in another post, you can't copyright the games themselves, or even a collection of games. What you can copyright is the original analysis of the games. >I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the repercussions are for an opening >book. But it is pretty clear that you should not simply use someone's work and >claim that it is yours. The key portion of your statement being "and claim that it is yours." There's nothing wrong with using someone else's work as long as you're not hiding the fact that it is someone else's work. For example, if someone wanted to create a Crafty clone, there is nothing wrong with that. If they wanted to enter it into a tournament where the rules prohibited "cloned engines", then that person could not legally enter their engine into the tournament, but there was nothing wrong with them creating the crafty clone in the first place, just like there would be nothing wrong with anyone copying any opening book. Where it becomes "wrong" is when you claim it as your own original work, as you pointed out. Russell
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