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Subject: Re: Opening Book Copyrights

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 11:36:21 11/18/05

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On November 18, 2005 at 12:17:06, Peter Berger wrote:

>---
>
>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

Peter,

This would be taking public information (facts) and putting them into your own
words (lines).  You present the facts as you interpret them in your own
particular style.  It's your work.  DHM



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