Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:07:10 06/21/03
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On June 20, 2003 at 18:14:34, Michael Vox wrote: >On June 20, 2003 at 06:26:41, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >Hello Pope, > >Just a note someone posted at rgmc about this topic: > >--- >See FIDE rule 8.3: > >"The scoresheets are the property of the organisers of the event." > >Or see USCF rule 15L: > >"Ownership of score sheets. The scoresheets of all games in a tournament are >the property of the sponsoring organization(s)." >--- > >The question is, would a court consider these rules to be legally binding on the >players ? > >Would make for an interesting court case :) > >Regards, Yes, thanks. I would expect that the GM could well get the right for their own games (scores). That is exactly what some are trying to get. With good reasons IMO. For all who doubt: why cant you understand that a specific row of moves is genuinely protectable? It's not a singular move that is protectable but a ROW! Of course if a game is just repeated then the rights are still on the first who played the row. NB the whole row is copyrightable NOT just the moves 1 to 10 or 20. This is all very easy to understand. We all know it, at least when we are chess players. I think we must respect the genuine performance of these masters. That in special ChessBase and the many "free" servers are unhappy with new rules - that is understandable because they make money out of the slave work of many thousand people who brought these gamescores into the internet format, and they make money with the data. ChessBase even makes money with Crowthwers data when they give it on their yearly big databases... Rolf
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