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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 01:24:39 05/01/02

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>Sorry, but this is wrong.  IE I can _definitely_ copyright a collection such
>as "Fischer's games where he used the theme 'xxxxx' to break through".  All
>that copyright law requires is that I do some sort of "work" in putting the
>collection together.  Just filtering all of Fischer's games won't fly.  But
>"Fischer's 100 greatest games" is definitely copyrightable as that is a subset
>of all the games he played and it required work/effort on my part to extract
>just the games I thought important or related...
I'm not certain that you are correct. You could certainly try to defend your
copyright on the collection of uncommented game scores. But it's possible to
construct other criteria that would make the selection of those hundred games.
Using a random generator f.ex. There would be no problem at all to construct a
biased one to get any given set of games. And then I would have the source code
to back me up.

MvH Dan Andersson



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