Author: Peter Berger
Date: 09:17:06 11/18/05
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On November 18, 2005 at 10:35:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 18, 2005 at 10:24:35, Ted Summers wrote: > >>Do creators of opening books copyright them? Can they if they choose? I sure >>they can sell them. Just wanted to know because of the lestest fruit issue they >>was posted in this forum. If they don't, maybe it's time they start. > >Copyright is automatic in most of the world, no need to 'do' anything. > >And yes, openings books, like databases, can be copyrighted. Individual openings >can't. > >-- >GCP Maybe an interesting twist to this problem is to think about automatically generated opening books ( that form the basis of several) . Let's say you use your ChessBase (or choose any other product name you prefer here) database and select some games from it. Then you use say Crafty or Yace book creation commands to create some book file choosing some parameters you think are appropriate. Who owns the copyright for the resulting product? Is it legal to distribute for the "author" without explicit permissions? --- Another twist: you manually put zillions of lines from ECO (or any other opening book) into a PGN file and create an opening book from it - copyrights? Does this change when you do just that, but add lots of lines of own analysis or does the answer stay the same? -- I am actually very sceptical about the copyrights regarding most opening books distributed anywhere, but I am not very knowledgeable about legal issues. Peter
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