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Subject: Re: Might be illegal!

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 17:53:14 06/23/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 16:49:11, Arild Fredriksen wrote:

>Yes, you are right – no doubt about that.  The opening book
>published on ChessliB as Lunsens opening book is definitely
>ChessBases’s PowwerBook 2000.
>
>In view of that the Power Book is the property of ChessBase
>I take this situation very seriously.  The files will instantaneous
>be removed from DL.

Perhaps what you are doing is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing!
It sounds as if Lunsen could successfully sue Chessbase!

Bob D.

>
>I know mr Lunsen as an honest man and have no reason to
>belive that he deliberately sent me the CB-files.
>
>In any case,  I am responsible for all contents at ChessliB
>and will inform ChessBase about the incident.
>
>Awaiting an explanation from mr. Lunsen, I have nothing
>to add, apart from that I am very sorry for the violation
>of ChessBase’s copyright.
>
>Best regards
>Arild Fredriksen
>
>Cc: Lunsen (by e-mail)
>
>
>On June 23, 2002 at 06:38:57, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 2002 at 19:06:12, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>On June 22, 2002 at 18:48:45, Mustafa wrote:
>>>
>>>>sorry that i did not wrote it right but can anyone tell me the url where i can
>>>>download the fritz opening book or larsen or lausen .............
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/Lunsen.htm
>>>
>>>Terry
>>
>>
>>This "Lunsen"-book might be illegal because it is the same opening book which
>>ChessBase (c) originally sold as "Powerbook 2000".
>>So it might be illegal to provide this book with a different name for
>>downloading from any website.



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