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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 07:12:16 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 07:16:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 02, 2002 at 05:22:06, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>A lot of people seem to fail to understand the difference between holding
>>copyright over an opening and a book. You obviously cant copyright an opening.
>>So if you for example play 1000 of automated games in one opening against Rebel,
>>and create a book from that, thats ok. But a book is a lot more. It is a
>>collection of openings, the weight of different lines, the ? and !s.
>
>It is a trivial excercise to figure out the '!' and '?' from a
>large collection of outplayer games.
>
>--
>GCP

Then why not generate your own ? How does it fit to say that you dont generate
your own book but its very simple ?

Note "you" doesnt refer to GCP, I know that he wouldnt copy the Rebel book.

Georg




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