Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:44:55 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 01:49:48, Peter McKenzie wrote: ><snip> >>>And you cannot copyright a "collection" of games. For example, say someone >>>published a book (actual paperback book) with 300 Fischer games (no comments, >>>nothing. Just the games.) and was selling this book for $50. And then someone >>>else came along and published a book with the same exact 300 games, (in a >>>different cover and style) for $25. There is *NOTHING* that first person can >>>do. The Fischer games do NOT belong to him. >> >>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... > >Now you've got me curious ... isn't there a file distributed with winboard which >contains Fischer's 60 Memorable Games? Ie. the same games that are in the >famous book of the same name? I don't know. If it is combined with other stuff then I don't see how it would be a problem. IE it is _the_ "collection" that is somehow unique. But someone spent some time choosing those games from all the games he played. It would seem that effort is protected, IMHO... > >Is Tim Mann breaking copyright? Or perhaps he got permission from the >publisher? (this seems unlikely since they recently republished the book) > >Also, what about test suites such as WAC which originated from a Fred Reinfeld >book I think. > >Peter Good question... I suspect that could definitely be a problem since each position and solution represents a lot of work...
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