Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 02:57:02 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 00:01:42, allan johnson 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 > Russell I found your response logical and persuasive.When I first read Jeroen's > message I sympathised with him a great deal but after reading your rejoinder > I've been convinced that he really shouldn't expect to own chess openings. > Al In my case it would be insane to call every opening I touched the van Hal variation because it only would lead to confusion. How ever Jeroen can claim his openings book as a whole to be authorized! Just like I can with my full analyses rather then only 1 game which came out these analyses. Regards Marc van Hal
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