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Subject: Re: Another question of legality?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 09:38:26 10/05/05

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On October 05, 2005 at 11:43:48, James Constance wrote:

>If one bought a few commercially available databases of games and combined them
>into a huge pgn file (or other database format) and resold them, would one be
>breaking any copyright laws (as presumably the games aren't copyrighted, though
>the commercial company probably spent a lot of time compiling and checking the
>games)?
>
>P.S. I have no plans to do this :)

Assuming they are strip of annotations -  a case could be made either way in my
opinion.   Putting the games them in a different order may help.  I actually
believe chess players should be compensated for the gamesscores of the chess
games they play.  It is really one of the few arts & sciences where the creators
get no compensation for ther creativity (unless they write a book about it).  I
think   prfoessional "Go"  players get paid for their gamescores - not 100$
sure.



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