Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 08:07:02 06/20/03
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On June 20, 2003 at 06:26:41, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Look, people often have difficulties to understand: they say moves are not >copyrighted. I say that the specific moves of a game ARE copyrighted and >original. We should support the lives of our GM. > >Rolf Tueschen They aren't and won't be because, if such a move (to extend the laws of copyright) was ever passed professional sports involving individuals would immediately end up in serious trouble; chess is not a special case! Individuals would attempt to protect anything, no matter how trivial, which they thought might give them an advantage over others and entire sports would probably become tied up in a mass of court cases. (This is all reminiscent of the 'business methods' cases of the late 1990s when individual businesses tried to copyright relatively obvious and widely used techniques. Those cases eventually collapsed, thankfully). Alastair
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