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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Mike S.

Date: 03:19:35 05/01/02

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On May 01, 2002 at 03:24:25, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>(...)
>Just attend to my home one time, and I will show you what work and knowledge
>REALLY is necessary.

This is your point, but not what Russel was talking about.

There's no doubt that much work and knowledge is necessary to create a good
opening book, but you can't claim rights on chess moves. I.e. if a Rebel program
plays an opening line with your book and the game is published, that line might
appear in various books people create from games collections. Has a part of your
book been stolen by that?

But something else I wanted to ask: What if a normal customer (and programmer),
who has bought a Rebel program including your book, uses it to support his own
engine in a big tournament? He says, if have bought this software, and I use it
legally.

What about that?

I'm not talking about people who take parts of your book and offer it as their
own work (that's obviously not ok), but cases where somebody could say "Yes, I
use the Noomen openings which I've paid for when buying Rebel Century (for
example), for the games my engine XY plays in that tournament." Is this illegal
(in terms of law)?

I've asked the question before:
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?227217

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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