Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 08:30:53 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 11:15:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>Is it 'my' book then?
Sorry for the rhetorical question, I'll restate.
>>So if you for example play 1000 of automated games in one opening against
>>Rebel, and create a book from that, thats ok.
I would assume it is. I'll assume it as a basic right to compile an
opening book from a set of games from other players for the rest of
this discussion.
>>But a book is a lot more. It is a collection of openings, the weight of
>>different lines, the ? and !s.
Now, the problem is that there is an equivalence between the book and a
large enough set of games played by a program with that book. Given the
latter, I can determine the former. Saying I can do one and not the other
makes no sense.
>>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.
I would think the same, i.e. an opening cannot be copyrighted. But Jeroen
is claiming exactly that in this thread, namely that people should not
be allowed to copy ('steal') lines from the Rebel book.
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GCP
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