Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 12:45:56 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 12:36:56, Dana Turnmire wrote: >On January 09, 2004 at 12:26:27, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>On January 08, 2004 at 23:49:59, Dana Turnmire wrote: >> >>>I have been compiling an opening book for Genius 7 using Nunn's Chess Openings >>>and have entered 48,949 moves and 44,038 positions. \\ >> >> >>I hate to be negative for all your hard work but if you're copying moves out of >>Nunn's Chess Openings, is not this a violation of copyright law. >I will continue to compile a book but will no longer mention NCO. That's how it >was done in the old days. I should not think that this is not a violation of copyright law. After all, all those moves are in other opening books and besides you can get the same moves by generating a tree from a database of games. What would be a violation of copyright law would be the evaluation of those moves, the }'s, the ='s, and the ‡'s, those represent the work that the authors put into the opening book. If your opening book for Genius 7 does not attach evaluations for those moves then you should be O.K. On the other hand your book should definitely have many moves denoted as "always play" and "never play". How you label those is up to you. If you slavishly follow the recomendations of NCO in deciding whether or not Genius 7 always plays or never plays certain moves then maybe you would be in trouble. I'm not sure.
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