Author: F. Huber
Date: 03:11:44 06/05/04
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On June 05, 2004 at 05:25:58, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On June 05, 2004 at 01:39:40, Karl-Heinz Milaster wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>last year I buy 11 Tablebase cd's on Ebay. Last month I receive a letter from >>the german police: Probably the seller has violate the copyright of ChessBase. >>But the cd's are not a simple copy of any ChessBase product. >>Is this possible? Has ChessBase a exclusive right to bring tablebase cd's to the >>german market? >>Excuse my englisch. >> >>Kind regards, >>Karl-Heinz Milaster > >Hello Karl-Heinz, > >I am not a lawyer. But I will describe my thoughts on that: > >Even if a data source is free, that does not mean, that a special container >of that content also would be free. The gathering (calculating) and storing >of data in a special way into a file, or the arrangement of such files in >a special set is a result of creativity and copyright protected (in Germany) >as a newly created independent intellectual property. > >Therefore in your case it would matter, from where the copied files (not the >included tables) had been taken and whether that has been free material or not. > >Regards, Reinhard. Hi Reinhard! Would you really say, that e.g. if I take the TB-files 1+2+3 and put them onto a CD in the order 3+2+1, this rearrangement would be any kind of ´creativity´ from my side?? (I really hope to be indeed much more ´creative´ ... ;-)) Best regards, Franz.
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