Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 00:09:10 05/01/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 18:01:21, Torstein Hall wrote: >>You have understood the problem, you are not going to fight your own opening >>book in world championship event. >> >>Ed >Of course I understand your frustration, but...... > >In normal chess at the highest level the GM's are saving their best opening >innovations to important events. When one player has made the move it is common >knowledge, and everyone is free to use it. So at least if Rebel has played the >opening sequence in one game, I think it is fair to copy that part at least! Sure. >And if a player makes his moves public, say in a opening book, a human book >about openings that is :-), of course everyone must be free to use his moves as >well. And in one way, that is what you have done when selling the program with >a opening book! There appears to be some misunderstandings on the issue. When you buy software it doesn't mean you suddenly own the copyright of the product, no the copyright remains the intellectual property of the producer. What you buy is the right to use the software. We are not talking about improving the opening book of program_X because it has lost some games against Rebel because of Rebel's opening book, that is not the issue. We are talking here about a copy & paste of 14 years hard work which is copyrighted (see the header in any Rebel book) and use it in world championships. Ed >Torstein > >> >>>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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