Author: Michael Williams
Date: 22:43:01 04/30/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 00:05:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. Numbers inserted... >1. The key portion of your statement being "and claim that it is yours." Not relevant to J's claim. >2. 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. Why do they call intellectual property 'property'? >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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