Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:27:08 12/17/03
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On December 17, 2003 at 06:30:52, Martin Andersen wrote: >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. Naturally they have their permission - the players are paid for their annotations. If you read the copyright, the copyright is maintained by Chess Informant. Thus for anyone else to publish games published in Chess Informant , you must obtain permission from Chess Informant. There are exceptions. As an example, there the doctrine of "fair use". "Fair Use" means that a anyone may quote a few passages from a book to illustrate the literary style of the book, without violating copyright laws. (As I did above) However, if I was to publish all the "A0" games, or all the games of one player that might go beyond "fair use". Exactly where the line is drawn is something for the courts to decide. Even when you only use a few lines from passages in a book, it should always be attributed to the original owner (as I did in the example above) The current copyright law in the US is : Anything published before 1923 is in the public domain. Anything published between 1923 and 1978 without a copyright notice is in the public domain. Anything published between 1978 and March 1 , 1989 without a copyright notice and without subsequent registration is in the public domain. Anything published between 1978 and March 1 , 1989 without a copyright notice but with subsequent registration is copyrighted until 70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation Anything published between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice but copyright was not renewed is the public domain. Anything published between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice and copyright was renewed is copyrighted for 95 years after publication date. Anything published between 1964 and March 1, 1989 with a copyright notice is copyrighted 70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation Anything published After 1 March 1989, 70 yars after death of author, or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation FYI, less than 15% of all published works were ever renewed (per a Copyright Office study).
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