Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 03:30:52 12/17/03
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On December 17, 2003 at 06:25:41, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >I did a little searching on the internet. I figured a game is maybe like a >complete poem. What I found is you can't quote an entire poem without permission >from the author. You can quote a minor part of it though without permission, but >as always, you must provide proper atribution. > >The trouble with this is the informant is full of games reproduced without >permission isn't it? The same goes for other chess books, magazines and >databases. What gives? I think it's more like this: A chess game without annotations you are allowed to copy freely. A game can have comments and in that case there can be a copyright to these comments, so you can't copy them without the owner's permission. Informant must have permission from the chessplayers to print their comments. Martin.
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