Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 02:42:56 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 02:24:50, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>On April 30, 2002 at 23:39:45, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>Chess opening moves, for the most part, are not anywhere close to being
>>"intellectual property", and the sharing of them is thus not a problem for the
>>large portion of opening moves. If there are some original lines that you worked
>>out that no one else in the history of chess publication has published that are
>>present within your opening books, then congratulations, you have a small part
>>of an opening book that you may claim intellectual property...maybe.
>>
>>Even if you did come up with something like this entirely on your own that no
>>one else had ever come up with before, I still think it's quite unclear whether
>>it's intellectual property. If that were the case chess would become illegal to
>>play within seconds. You would play 1. e4 and...OOPS! Someone has already played
>>that and so it's not allowed for you to play.
>>
>>Personally I think this is very silly. It's a game. If you created your opening
>>books for financial gain, then you shouldn't get all up in arms when people
>>start getting their hands on it. If you created them for people to use, then you
>>shouldn't get all bent out of shape either. If you don't derive enough joy from
>>doing it to the point where you are going to get all upset about people
>>"stealing" what is mostly well known data, then perhaps you didn't do it for the
>>right reasons to begin with. No organization making a rule is going to stop
>>anyone from using a database of opening chess moves.
>>
>>I think this would be like someone creating a big list of prime numbers and
>>selling them and getting upset when someone else gives them away for free. Sure,
>>you put in the original work to create it, but I hardly think chess moves are in
>>any way intellectual property. If that were the case, no one would be allowed to
>>learn from others chess games. You wouldn't be able to see Kasparov's latest
>>game and see his new line and use it without his permission, which is of course,
>>absurd.
>>
>>Russell
>
>I created an opening book from Nunn's Chess Openings. Where does that fit in
>the picture?
Read my First posting I already have givven the answer.
Regards Marc
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