Author: Mark Young
Date: 19:52:04 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 21:30:31, Chuck wrote: >Recently there have been several messages concerning the legality of posting >games played by a computer when the software license restricts this. > >I don't see how this can be restricted. The moves of a chess game are obviously >public domain (i.e., they belong to no one). If GM's cannot restrict us from >posting their games any way we want, how does some programmer think he has >the right? So what happens to the software's opponents' right to the game >score? Oh, programmer's think they have carte blanche to put any crap they >can think up in a license agreement. To me this part of the license is >a violation of the First Amendment! Which of those will hold water? > >I can legitamtely agree that the software-generated analysis might be the >property of the software, but no way the move list. And when you compare >the rights of GM's, their analysis gets posted all over the place. If we >allow these licenses to be binding, we give the machinery more rights than >we have. > >Most software companies have absurd license agreements anyway, but these >programmers must be on crack when they come up with this junk. As I said, >the score of a chess game is the property of NO one, and can be publicly >published at any time, no matter who the participants were. > >Chuck If you have games you want posted send them to me in a email, I will post them. That way we don't break the absurd license agreement :)
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