Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:24:39 01/04/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 09:17:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >There are two issues: > >(1) the work involved in putting together N positions is definitely going to >make the 'collection' copyrightable. That is what copyright is all about. >Individual positions are _never_ copyrightable, even if the position is a >composition, because it is possible to write a simple program to enumerate >_every_ possible position (ie in a written document, an individual word is >not copyrightable). > >(2) the real question is "Who holds the copyright?" The answer should be >"Nunn" unless he signed over the copyright to CSS. Someone ought to be able >to ask him if he did this. If not, there is no problem as CSS doesn't get >the copyright by publishing. He holds the copyright as the originator. The main problem Bob is, that computerschach and spiele is using this topic as a battlefield to kill a concurrent magazine. They have done those things with Europa-Rochade, another famous german chess magazine, before. the reason is: friedel and co. don't like that other people in germany have different opinons about chessbase-products (friedel is owner of chessbase and publisher of computerschach and spiele). therefore computerschach and spiele and their guys try to stop any publications about their products and about them. markus kaestners magazine chessbits is new, but has many readers and friends , because he is doing a great job. therefore he is a danger for frederic and chessbase because they cannot continue their monopol situation and cannot censor the german public anymore. think/imagine that germany is a big market for computerchess products and friedel with having Chessbase PLUS computerschach and spiele has big influence. They threatened other people before (Europa-Rochade, Gambit Soft) and their were several law-suits and also dirty things behind the scene. they think they can continue this. but time has changed. friedel is not anymore controlling anything. there is internet. there is europa-rochade, there is chessbits and there is CCC. also they have no control over the german-television station WDR (they would like to have :-))) since the makers of the german television chess-stuff don't like this kind of "behaviour" too. The thing with the Nunn-test (~ none-test :-))) is just a way to stop markus, who has done a great job publishing his 4 editions so far. the question is: do we allow commercial people to destroy computerchess by doing these kind of threatening behind the scene, or in other words: how much damage is chessbase doing to the computerchess-community ?!
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