Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 14:04:44 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 15:45:56, Louis Fagliano wrote: >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. I'm not a lawyer and certainly don't wish to harm NCO in any way. I've said nothing but good things about the book and hopefully the sales will increase. I am merely trying to create a top quality opening book which certainly would not be possible for anyone below master level without some help. I am certainly not adding every variation found and really just wanted to have a better book than that which came with the program. I confess that the copywright laws are confusing to me but didn't think using it for my own personal use would result in any harm.
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